The DAME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,528	8586	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,023	5349	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+2505	-3237	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	12	77427	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DAME by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	260	3350	0.004	41
Florida	252	7689	0.002	16
New York	250	7795	0.001	13
Missouri	196	3834	0.004	35
California	191	13150	0.001	6
Top States for DAME by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	150	1317	0.012	121
Maine	111	2059	0.009	87
Rhode Island	65	2503	0.006	62
Vermont	34	2968	0.006	56
Kentucky	166	3042	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of DAME

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 DAME 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 DAME in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	46	1.3
Mixed Race	40	1.13
Black/African American	32	0.91
Asian/Pacific	23	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.51
White (Caucasian)	3,369	95.49

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

Similar names to DAME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DAME.

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.