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    The surname Dease

    A surname, carried by 1,129 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D200

    Dease: #22,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dease #22,707, 1,129 people Dease: #22,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dease #22,707, 1,129 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dease is more common than 86% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,129 people named Dease in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 273,468 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,079.

    #22,707
    rank among US surnames
    1,129
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,283)

    Who is named Dease

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

    58% of people named Dease identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 58%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Dease

    Dease has the Soundex code D200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dease?
    1,129 people in the United States had the surname Dease in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 273,468 Americans. It ranked 22,707th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dease?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Dease identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dease getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,079 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,129 in 2010, up 4.6%.