Desota Surname

1,281,391st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 178 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Desota Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Desota Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1771:2,047,791130,814
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States111:4,565,335193,764

Desota (25) may also be a first name.

Desota Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Desota Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Desota is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Desota? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,281,391st most widely held family name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 40,941,269 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Desota reside; 98 percent reside in North America and 98 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,136,160th most common first name in the world, held by 25 people.

It is most numerous in The United States, where it is borne by 177 people, or 1 in 2,047,791. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Minnesota, where 19 percent reside, Texas, where 14 percent reside and California, where 10 percent reside. Beside The United States this last name occurs in one country. It is also common in Canada, where 1 percent reside.

Desota Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Desota has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 1,609 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Desota Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Desota last name are 41.21% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 94.44% registered to vote for the political party.

Desota earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 2.36% less than the national average, earning $42,131 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Desota
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