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The DUNAGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,251 9226 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 455 10423 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2796 +1197 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 1 301178 0 0
United Kingdom 8 31528 0 0
Top States for DUNAGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 451 2215 0.006 55
Texas 358 5559 0.002 17
California 247 10358 0.001 7
Alabama 224 2754 0.005 50
Oklahoma 169 2767 0.005 49
Top States for DUNAGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 451 2215 0.006 55
Alabama 224 2754 0.005 50
Oklahoma 169 2767 0.005 49
New Mexico 77 2149 0.004 42
Kentucky 143 3348 0.004 35

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

Classification and Origin of DUNAGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DUNAGAN 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 DUNAGAN 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 DUNAGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 149 4.58
White (Hispanic) 54 1.66
Mixed Race 33 1.02
Asian/Pacific 26 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.52
White (Caucasian) 2,972 91.42

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

Meaning of DUNAGAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DUNAGAN.

Similar names to DUNAGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNAGAN.

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 DUNAGAN

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