# Date (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Marathi |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 589 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,735 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 524,186 people |
| Change since 2000 | -5.6% (624 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Marathi दाते (dāte), from Sanskrit दाता (dātā), nominative singular of दातृ (dātṛ, “giver, donor”). * Borrowed from Japanese 伊達 (Date, “a city in Hokkaido Prefecture”), a habitational surname.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Date 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) | 43% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 13% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 32% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 6.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Date in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Date

- Terry Date, American record producer
- Christopher J. Date, British database researcher (born 1941)

## Similar surnames

Dade, Datta, Dato, Dodd, Dewitt, Doty, Dowd, Dowdy, Duda, Duty, Doud, Doody.

## 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.