The DYKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,891	2391	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	1,682	3477	0.003	34
Change since 1880	+12209	+1086	+0.002	+18
Other Countries
Australia	447	3557	0.003	27
United Kingdom	2,787	2231	0.006	61

Top States for DYKES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,490	1442	0.009	93
Texas	1,286	1947	0.006	62
Tennessee	1,264	729	0.022	222
Georgia	1,234	911	0.015	151
Alabama	974	800	0.022	219
Top States for DYKES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	869	524	0.031	305
Tennessee	1,264	729	0.022	222
Alabama	974	800	0.022	219
Louisiana	872	777	0.020	195
Georgia	1,234	911	0.015	151

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

Classification and Origin of DYKES

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 DYKES 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 DYKES 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 DYKES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	210	1.51
Mixed Race	169	1.22
Native American/Alaskan	63	0.45
Asian/Pacific	38	0.27
White (Caucasian)	11,453	82.45
Black/African American	1,959	14.1

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

Meaning of DYKES in historical publications

DYKES. There is every reason to believe that this name is derived from no less an object than Hadrian's Roman Wall — the "Barrier of the Lower Isthmus." Tlie family originated at Dykesfield, co. Cumberland, on the line of tliat celebrated defence. There is no doubt that the popular appellation of Hadrian's work was "tlie Dyke," or " the Dykes," just as " Graham's Dyke" vas that of the more northern defence of Lollius Urbicus. See much interesting information on this subject in Dr. Bruce's " Roman Wall," edit. 185.3, pp. 279, et seq., and Preface, p. ix. Dykesfield may have been so named either from the family, or inxmediately from the fact of the barrier's passing over the place. However this may be, the surname Dykes was borrowed from the wall itself, as appears from its earliest known form, Avhich is not De Dykesfield, but Del Dykes, i. e. " of the Dykes." Robert Del Dykes, the first recorded individual of the familj, is mentioned in a deed (witliout date, but known from internal evidence to be) of temp. Henry III., penes F. L. B. Dykes, Esq. Another ancient northern family of the same district — that of Thirlwall — also derive their appellation from the Roman Wall. See Thirlwall.

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 DYKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DYKES.

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.