# Dantas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dantas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 412 |
| US rank (2010) | 50,659 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 749,382 people |
| Change since 2000 | +36% (302 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dantas in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 81% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 8.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 6.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Dantas in Brazil and Portugal.

## People named Dantas

- Tiago Dantas, association football player
- Rodrigo Dantas, Brazilian footballer
- Márcia Dantas, Brazilian journalist
- Ayrton Lucas, Brazilian association football player

## Similar surnames

Dantes, Dantzler, Dundas.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.