How common is the surname Demers?

9,225 people in the United States had the surname Demers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,468 Americans. It ranked 3,839th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Demers?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Demers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Demers getting more or less common?

More common. 9,009 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,225 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Demers

A French surname, carried by 9,225 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D562

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Demers is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,225 people named Demers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,468 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,009.

#3,839

rank among US surnames

9,225

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,624)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,830	Headley	9,250	33,378
#3,831	Horst	9,245	33,396
#3,832	Sturm	9,242	33,407
#3,833	Reinhart	9,237	33,425
#3,834	McNutt	9,232	33,443
#3,835	Tu	9,230	33,450
#3,837	Galicia	9,229	33,454

Who is named Demers

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

96% of people named Demers identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Demers

Demers has the Soundex code D562, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D562.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Demers come from?: Demers is French in origin.
How common is the surname Demers?: 9,225 people in the United States had the surname Demers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,468 Americans. It ranked 3,839th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Demers?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Demers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Demers getting more or less common?: More common. 9,009 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,225 in 2010, up 2.4%.