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    The surname Dance

    A surname, carried by 2,869 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D520

    Dance: #11,073 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dance #11,073, 2,869 people Dance: #11,073 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dance #11,073, 2,869 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dance is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,869 people named Dance in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,614 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,716.

    #11,073
    rank among US surnames
    2,869
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #10,785)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,066Shuford2,871107,539
    #11,069Eanes2,870107,577
    #11,073Kappel2,869107,614
    #11,076Kiely2,868107,652
    #11,078Thielen2,867107,689
    #11,079Leber2,865107,765
    #11,081Emmanuel2,864107,802

    Who is named Dance

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

    66% of people named Dance identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dance

    Dance has the Soundex code D520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dance?
    2,869 people in the United States had the surname Dance in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,614 Americans. It ranked 11,073rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dance?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Dance identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dance getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,716 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,869 in 2010, up 5.6%.