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The DUN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 476 42830 0 2
United States (1880 census) 1,282 4420 0.003 26
Change since 1880 -806 -38410 +N/A -24
Other Countries
Australia 186 8063 0.001 11
United Kingdom 117 22407 0 3
Top States for DUN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 96 19202 0.000 3
Ohio 56 17625 0.000 5
New York 40 34675 0.000 2
Texas 28 33367 0.000 1
New Jersey 24 30853 0.000 3
Top States for DUN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 3 17608 0.001 6
Arkansas 15 10993 0.001 6
Ohio 56 17625 0.000 5
North Dakota 3 19620 0.000 5
Maine 5 17132 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DUN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DUN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DUN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DUN by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DUN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DUN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DUN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DUN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 209 43.91
Asian/Pacific 202 42.44
Black/African American 39 8.19
Mixed Race 19 3.99
White (Hispanic) 7 1.47
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DUN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DUN in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the parish of Dun, Forfarshire, Scotland, derived from the Gaelic Dun, a hill or rising ground, a fort or castle.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to DUN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DUN

The following words are slight variants of DUN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.