The DWIGHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,029	13707	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,088	5097	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+941	-8610	-0.001	-14
Other Countries
Australia	221	6866	0.001	14
United Kingdom	322	12147	0.001	7

Top States for DWIGHT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	283	9108	0.001	8
Texas	170	10038	0.001	8
Massachusetts	143	5609	0.002	23
Georgia	103	6611	0.001	13
Florida	95	17435	0.001	6
Top States for DWIGHT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	19	6749	0.003	25
Massachusetts	143	5609	0.002	23
South Carolina	86	5071	0.002	21
Oregon	56	7396	0.002	16
Iowa	47	9352	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of DWIGHT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	491	24.2
White (Hispanic)	56	2.76
Mixed Race	47	2.32
Asian/Pacific	22	1.08
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.64
White (Caucasian)	1,400	69

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

Similar names to DWIGHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DWIGHT.

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.