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    The surname Daoust

    A French surname, carried by 1,356 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D230

    Daoust: #19,823 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Daoust #19,823, 1,356 people Daoust: #19,823 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Daoust #19,823, 1,356 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Daoust is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Daoust.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,356 people named Daoust in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,688 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,195.

    #19,823
    rank among US surnames
    1,356
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.5%
    change since 2000 (was #20,599)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,814Eckler1,357227,521
    #19,823Zaki1,356227,688

    Who is named Daoust

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

    95% of people named Daoust identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Aoust

    Surnames that sound like Daoust

    Daoust has the Soundex code D230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D230.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Daoust come from?
    From French Daoust.
    How common is the surname Daoust?
    1,356 people in the United States had the surname Daoust in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,688 Americans. It ranked 19,823rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Daoust?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Daoust identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Daoust getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,195 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,356 in 2010, up 14%.
    What are other spellings of Daoust?
    Aoust.