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The DY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,422 18077 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 4 102836 0 0
Change since 1880 +1418 +84759 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 56 23268 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 526 6329 0.002 16
Illinois 93 16982 0.001 7
New Jersey 89 13167 0.001 11
Florida 78 24706 0.000 5
Washington 75 11405 0.001 13
Top States for DY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 526 6329 0.002 16
Washington 75 11405 0.001 13
Rhode Island 12 13025 0.001 11
New Jersey 89 13167 0.001 11
Delaware 6 24419 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of DY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 83 5.84
Mixed Race 82 5.77
White (Hispanic) 26 1.83
Black/African American 14 0.98
Asian/Pacific 1,217 85.58
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

DY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DY.

Similar names to DY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DY.

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.