The DUNNING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,583	3130	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	3,687	1662	0.007	74
Change since 1880	+6896	-1468	-0.003	-35
Other Countries
Australia	771	2102	0.005	47
United Kingdom	3,809	1633	0.008	83

Top States for DUNNING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	817	3772	0.002	24
New York	728	2693	0.004	38
Florida	625	3372	0.004	39
Illinois	590	2233	0.005	48
Michigan	484	2423	0.005	49
Top States for DUNNING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	136	1033	0.017	174
Maine	149	1643	0.012	117
Montana	84	1382	0.009	93
Alabama	407	1774	0.009	92
Wyoming	38	1654	0.008	77

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

Classification and Origin of DUNNING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	177	1.67
Mixed Race	161	1.52
Native American/Alaskan	61	0.58
Asian/Pacific	41	0.39
White (Caucasian)	8,758	82.76
Black/African American	1,385	13.09

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

Meaning of DUNNING in historical publications

The brown offspring, from the Saxon Dunn, brown, and the termination ing, which, among the Saxons, signified offspring, as White-ing, the fair offspring, Cuth-ing, the son of Cuth. Dunning has retained its original orthography since the days of the Saxons.

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

DUNNING. Dunning, proprietor of Latham, co. Chester, and ancestor of the family of Lathom, or Latham, of that place, was contemporary with the malving of Domesday Book. Whether he was a continued possessor, of the Saxon race, or a Norman grantee, is, Dr. Ormerod thinks, doubtful. His son was called Siward FitzDuuning. Miscellanea Palatina, p. GO. The contemporary lord of Kiugsley, co. Chester, also bore the personal name of Dunning, as did several other persons in Norman times.

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 DUNNING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNNING.

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.