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    The surname Damman

    A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 656 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D550

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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). Damman is more common than 78.7% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Borrowed from Dutch Damman, occupational surname for someone whose responsibility was to look after a dike or dam, from dam.

    Damman is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 656 people named Damman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 470,649 Americans. That is down 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 677.

    #34,495
    rank among US surnames
    656
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,129)

    Who is named Damman

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

    95% of people named Damman identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    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 Damman

    Damman has the Soundex code D550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D550.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Damman come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch Damman, occupational surname for someone whose responsibility was to look after a dike or dam, from dam.
    How common is the surname Damman?
    656 people in the United States had the surname Damman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 470,649 Americans. It ranked 34,495th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Damman?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Damman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Damman?
    Damman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Damman getting more or less common?
    Less common. 677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 656 in 2010, down 3.1%.