The DUNBAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	24,871	1299	0.009	92
United States (1880 census)	7,727	775	0.015	155
Change since 1880	+17144	-524	-0.006	-63
Other Countries
Australia	1,205	1373	0.007	74
United Kingdom	4,895	1281	0.011	107

Top States for DUNBAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,916	1749	0.006	57
Florida	1,593	1324	0.010	100
New York	1,394	1317	0.007	73
Pennsylvania	1,262	1117	0.010	103
Texas	1,165	2096	0.006	56
Top States for DUNBAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	182	525	0.030	299
Maine	329	795	0.026	258
South Carolina	962	694	0.024	240
West Virginia	417	678	0.023	231
Louisiana	858	771	0.019	192

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DUNBAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	413	1.66
White (Hispanic)	358	1.44
Asian/Pacific	107	0.43
Native American/Alaskan	92	0.37
White (Caucasian)	16,818	67.62
Black/African American	7,086	28.49

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

Similar names to DUNBAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNBAR.

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.