How common is the surname Damron?

8,354 people in the United States had the surname Damron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,958 Americans. It ranked 4,247th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Damron?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Damron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Damron getting more or less common?

More common. 8,172 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,354 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Damron

A surname, carried by 8,354 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D565

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Damron is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,354 people named Damron in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,958 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,172.

#4,247

rank among US surnames

8,354

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #3,989)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,238	Mariscal	8,368	36,896
#4,239	Houle	8,364	36,914
#4,240	Hales	8,363	36,918
#4,241	Nemeth	8,362	36,922
#4,242	Wingate	8,359	36,936
#4,245	Hennessey	8,357	36,945
#4,246	Cochrane	8,355	36,953

Who is named Damron

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

94% of people named Damron identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Damron

Dameron

Damron has the Soundex code D565, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D565.

Questions

How common is the surname Damron?: 8,354 people in the United States had the surname Damron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,958 Americans. It ranked 4,247th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Damron?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Damron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Damron getting more or less common?: More common. 8,172 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,354 in 2010, up 2.2%.