How common is the surname Dant?

1,508 people in the United States had the surname Dant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,738 Americans. It ranked 18,366th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dant?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Dant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Dant getting more or less common?

More common. 1,313 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,508 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Dant

A surname, carried by 1,508 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dant is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

From the French surname of Breton origin, from dant (“tooth”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,508 people named Dant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,738 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,313.

#18,366

rank among US surnames

1,508

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+14.9%

change since 2000 (was #19,144)

Who is named Dant

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

88% of people named Dant identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Asian and Pacific Islander 6.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dant

Dant has the Soundex code D530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D530.

Questions

Where does the surname Dant come from?: From the French surname of Breton origin, from dant (“tooth”).
How common is the surname Dant?: 1,508 people in the United States had the surname Dant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,738 Americans. It ranked 18,366th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dant?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Dant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Dant getting more or less common?: More common. 1,313 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,508 in 2010, up 15%.