The DANCY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,251	6029	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,108	5020	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+4143	-1009	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	4	177019	0	0
United Kingdom	251	14287	0.001	5

Top States for DANCY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,013	1404	0.013	126
Illinois	334	4458	0.003	27
Texas	311	7019	0.001	15
Virginia	291	3389	0.004	41
Ohio	275	5789	0.002	24
Top States for DANCY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,013	1404	0.013	126
Washington DC	62	1129	0.011	108
Mississippi	171	2443	0.006	60
West Virginia	102	2539	0.006	56
Alabama	202	3329	0.005	45

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

Classification and Origin of DANCY

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 DANCY 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 DANCY 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 DANCY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	79	1.5
White (Hispanic)	50	0.95
Asian/Pacific	17	0.32
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.19
Black/African American	3,221	61.34
White (Caucasian)	1,874	35.69

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

Similar names to DANCY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DANCY.

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.