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    The surname Datta

    A Bengali surname, carried by 1,813 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D300

    Datta: #16,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Datta #16,012, 1,813 people Datta: #16,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Datta #16,012, 1,813 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Datta is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    Bengali origin

    Borrowed from Bengali দত্ত (dotto), from Sanskrit दत्त (datta, “given, granted”).

    One of 21 Bengali surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,813 people named Datta in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,295 Americans. That is up 52% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,195.

    #16,012
    rank among US surnames
    1,813
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +51.7%
    change since 2000 (was #20,599)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,004Portnoy1,814170,202
    #16,012Hysell1,813170,295
    #16,018Provencio1,812170,389

    Who is named Datta

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

    85% of people named Datta identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 10% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 85%
    • White (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Two or more races 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

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

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Datta

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

    Other Bengali surnames

    All 21 Bengali surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Datta come from?
    Borrowed from Bengali দত্ত (dotto), from Sanskrit दत्त (datta, “given, granted”).
    How common is the surname Datta?
    1,813 people in the United States had the surname Datta in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,295 Americans. It ranked 16,012th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Datta?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Datta identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 10% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Datta getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,195 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,813 in 2010, up 52%.