How common is the surname Deel?

4,478 people in the United States had the surname Deel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,947 Americans. It ranked 7,437th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Deel?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Deel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Deel getting more or less common?

More common. 4,251 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,478 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Deel

A German surname, carried by 4,478 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deel is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As a north German surname, Borrowed from North German Deel. * Also as a north German surname, variant of Diehl, Diel. * As an English surname, variant of Deal, itself a variant of Dale and also named after Deal in Kent.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,478 people named Deel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,947 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,251.

#7,437

rank among US surnames

4,478

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #7,237)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,431	Conard	4,482	68,886
#7,433	Astorga	4,481	68,901
#7,434	Firestone	4,480	68,916
#7,437	Deel	4,478	68,947
#7,441	Warrington	4,477	68,963

Who is named Deel

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

96% of people named Deel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Deel

Deel has the Soundex code D400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D400.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Deel come from?: * As a north German surname, Borrowed from North German Deel. * Also as a north German surname, variant of Diehl, Diel. * As an English surname, variant of Deal, itself a variant of Dale and also named after Deal in Kent.
How common is the surname Deel?: 4,478 people in the United States had the surname Deel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,947 Americans. It ranked 7,437th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Deel?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Deel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Deel getting more or less common?: More common. 4,251 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,478 in 2010, up 5.3%.