The surname Desmarais
A French surname, carried by 4,170 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex D256
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Desmarais.
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 4,170 people named Desmarais in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,040 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,043.
Who is named Desmarais
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Desmarais identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Desmarais has the Soundex code D256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D256.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Desmarais come from?
- Borrowed from French Desmarais.
- How common is the surname Desmarais?
- 4,170 people in the United States had the surname Desmarais in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,040 Americans. It ranked 7,933rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Desmarais?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Desmarais identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Desmarais getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,043 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,170 in 2010, up 3.1%.
- What are other spellings of Desmarais?
- Demara, Demarest and Marais.