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The DUPONT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,880 3320 0.004 37
United States (1880 census) 997 5472 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +8883 +2152 +0.002 +17
Other Countries
Australia 87 16069 0.001 5
United Kingdom 197 16609 0 4
Top States for DUPONT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,101 563 0.025 246
Florida 965 2053 0.006 60
Massachusetts 958 888 0.015 151
California 615 4551 0.002 18
New York 521 3604 0.003 27
Top States for DUPONT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 378 450 0.031 306
Delaware 199 629 0.025 254
Louisiana 1,101 563 0.025 246
Rhode Island 193 705 0.018 184
Vermont 94 1097 0.015 154

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

Classification and Origin of DUPONT

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DUPONT 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.

Ethnic distribution of DUPONT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 865 8.76
White (Hispanic) 303 3.07
Mixed Race 190 1.92
Asian/Pacific 80 0.81
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.28
White (Caucasian) 8,414 85.16

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

Meaning of DUPONT in historical publications

DUPONT. Fr. ' Of the Bridge.'

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 DUPONT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUPONT.

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 DUPONT

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