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The DUNSTAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,237 20055 0 5
United States (1880 census) 386 11822 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +851 -8233 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 2,327 690 0.014 142
United Kingdom 1,938 3050 0.004 42
Top States for DUNSTAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 120 16630 0.000 4
Michigan 117 8893 0.001 12
Florida 112 13168 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 106 11638 0.001 9
New York 69 21982 0.000 4
Top States for DUNSTAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 29 5273 0.002 22
Montana 15 7700 0.002 17
New Hampshire 20 6428 0.002 16
Kansas 32 8491 0.001 12
Michigan 117 8893 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of DUNSTAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DUNSTAN 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 DUNSTAN 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 DUNSTAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 66 5.34
White (Hispanic) 28 2.26
Mixed Race 18 1.46
White (Caucasian) 1,114 90.06
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DUNSTAN in historical publications

DUNSTONE. DUNSTAN. IMore probably from one of the places so called in cos. Lincoln, Norfolk, Northumberland, and Stafford, than from the \vell-knowu A-Sax. personal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


(origin: Sax.) From Dun, a hill, and stan, a stone--the stone-hill, or the strong, enduring dun or fortress.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to DUNSTAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DUNSTAN.

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 DUNSTAN

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