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    The surname Dantes

    A Galician place surname, carried by 657 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D532

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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). Dantes is more common than 78.8% of them.

    Origin

    Galician origin

    Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Dantes, probably a variant spelling of Dantas, a habitational surname. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.

    Dantes is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 34 Galician surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 657 people named Dantes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 469,932 Americans. That is up 49% since 2000, when the Census counted 442.

    #34,465
    rank among US surnames
    657
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +48.6%
    change since 2000 (was #45,573)

    Who is named Dantes

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

    33% of people named Dantes identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 25% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 33%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • White (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dantes

    Dantes has the Soundex code D532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D532.

    Other Galician surnames

    All 34 Galician surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dantes come from?
    Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Dantes, probably a variant spelling of Dantas, a habitational surname. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.
    How common is the surname Dantes?
    657 people in the United States had the surname Dantes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 469,932 Americans. It ranked 34,465th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dantes?
    In the 2010 Census, 33% of people named Dantes identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Dantes?
    Dantes is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Dantes getting more or less common?
    More common. 442 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 657 in 2010, up 49%.