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    The surname Denn

    A surname, carried by 1,477 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D500

    Denn: #18,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Denn #18,633, 1,477 people Denn: #18,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Denn #18,633, 1,477 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Denn is more common than 88.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,477 people named Denn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,036 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,498.

    #18,633
    rank among US surnames
    1,477
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,377)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,633Cuyler1,477209,036
    #18,640Nees1,476209,177

    Who is named Denn

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

    79% of people named Denn identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 4.4%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Denn

    Denn has the Soundex code D500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Denn?
    1,477 people in the United States had the surname Denn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,036 Americans. It ranked 18,633rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Denn?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Denn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Denn getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,477 in 2010, down 1.4%.