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The DUNLOP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,164 7378 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 1,449 3952 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +2715 -3426 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 1,928 848 0.012 118
United Kingdom 6,883 912 0.015 150
Top States for DUNLOP by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 434 6217 0.001 13
Florida 395 4909 0.002 25
New York 357 5255 0.002 19
Michigan 286 4036 0.003 29
Texas 237 7605 0.001 11
Top States for DUNLOP by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 39 2629 0.006 61
New Hampshire 45 3739 0.004 36
Montana 32 4003 0.004 35
Delaware 25 5312 0.003 32
Maine 40 4240 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of DUNLOP

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 DUNLOP 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 DUNLOP 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 DUNLOP in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 275 6.6
White (Hispanic) 86 2.07
Mixed Race 51 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.48
Asian/Pacific 17 0.41
White (Caucasian) 3,715 89.22

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

Meaning of DUNLOP in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic. Local) A parish in the district of Cunningham, Ayrshire, Scotland; from Dun, a castle, fort, or hill, and lub, a curvature, a bending of the shore--the castle or hill at the bend.

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


DUNLOP. (Often corrupted in Scotland to Dunlap and Delap.) Traced to the year 260, when Dom. Gulielmusde Dunlop was lord of Dunlop in Ayrshire, an estate still in possession of the family.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DUNLOP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNLOP.

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 DUNLOP

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