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    The surname Dabbs

    A patronymic surname, carried by 4,516 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D120

    Dabbs: #7,380 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dabbs #7,380, 4,516 people Dabbs: #7,380 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dabbs #7,380, 4,516 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dabbs is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.

    Dabbs is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,516 people named Dabbs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,367 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,518.

    #7,380
    rank among US surnames
    4,516
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #6,861)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,373Zander4,51868,337
    #7,377Chick4,51768,352
    #7,380Dabbs4,51668,367
    #7,381Bhatia4,51568,382
    #7,382Schlabach4,51468,397
    #7,383Gama4,51368,412
    #7,384Shanley4,51168,443

    Who is named Dabbs

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    80% of people named Dabbs identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Dabbs

    Dabbs has the Soundex code D120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D120.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dabbs come from?
    From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.
    How common is the surname Dabbs?
    4,516 people in the United States had the surname Dabbs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,367 Americans. It ranked 7,380th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dabbs?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Dabbs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Dabbs?
    Dabbs is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Dabbs getting more or less common?
    About as common. 4,518 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,516 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.