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    The surname Deese

    A surname, carried by 6,626 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D200

    Deese: #5,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Deese #5,265, 6,626 people Deese: #5,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Deese #5,265, 6,626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deese is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,626 people named Deese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,596 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,350.

    #5,265
    rank among US surnames
    6,626
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #5,068)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,261Brasher6,63446,540
    #5,262Wessel6,63046,568
    #5,264Bowe6,62846,582
    #5,265Deese6,62646,596

    Who is named Deese

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

    75% of people named Deese identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 9.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 9.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Deese

    Deese 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 Deese?
    6,626 people in the United States had the surname Deese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,596 Americans. It ranked 5,265th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deese?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Deese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Deese getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,350 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,626 in 2010, up 4.3%.