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    The surname Dales

    A surname, carried by 1,279 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dales is more common than 87.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,279 people named Dales in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,396 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,120.

    #20,687
    rank among US surnames
    1,279
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.2%
    change since 2000 (was #21,680)

    Who is named Dales

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

    81% of people named Dales identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dales

    Dales has the Soundex code D420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dales?
    1,279 people in the United States had the surname Dales in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,396 Americans. It ranked 20,687th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dales?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Dales identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dales getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,120 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,279 in 2010, up 14%.