Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Date

    A Marathi place surname, carried by 589 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D300

    Date: #37,735 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Date #37,735, 589 people Date: #37,735 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Date #37,735, 589 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Date is more common than 76.7% of them.

    Origin

    Marathi origin

    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.

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

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 589 people named Date in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 524,186 Americans. That is down 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 624.

    #37,735
    rank among US surnames
    589
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #34,342)

    Who is named Date

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

    43% of people named Date identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 43%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 32%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 6.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Dates

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Terry Date
      American record producer, born 1956
    • Christopher J. Date
      British database researcher (born 1941)

    Notable Dates come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Date

    Date has the Soundex code D300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D300.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Date come from?
    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.
    How common is the surname Date?
    589 people in the United States had the surname Date in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 524,186 Americans. It ranked 37,735th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Date?
    In the 2010 Census, 43% of people named Date identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Date?
    Terry Date, American record producer, followed by Christopher J. Date.
    Where is the surname Date most common?
    Wikidata records people named Date in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Date?
    Date is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Date getting more or less common?
    Less common. 624 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 589 in 2010, down 5.6%.