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The DESCHENES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,779 15194 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 30 62860 0 1
Change since 1880 +1749 +47666 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DESCHENES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 379 1933 0.006 60
New Hampshire 183 858 0.015 148
Delaware 174 600 0.022 222
Florida 136 10916 0.001 9
Maine 128 1546 0.010 100
Top States for DESCHENES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 174 600 0.022 222
New Hampshire 183 858 0.015 148
Maine 128 1546 0.010 100
Rhode Island 67 1977 0.006 64
Massachusetts 379 1933 0.006 60

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

Classification and Origin of DESCHENES

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

Ethnic distribution of DESCHENES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 33 1.85
White (Hispanic) 13 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.62
White (Caucasian) 1,712 96.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of DESCHENES in historical publications

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

Similar names to DESCHENES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DESCHENES.

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.

Potential typos for DESCHENES

The following words are slight variants of DESCHENES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.