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    The surname Dewald

    A surname, carried by 3,275 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D430

    Dewald: #9,875 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dewald #9,875, 3,275 people Dewald: #9,875 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dewald #9,875, 3,275 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dewald is more common than 93.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,275 people named Dewald in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 94,273 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,258.

    #9,875
    rank among US surnames
    3,275
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,209)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,870Biles3,27894,187
    #9,872Dake3,27794,216
    #9,873Bingaman3,27694,245
    #9,875Dewald3,27594,273
    #9,877Portis3,27494,302
    #9,879Soltis3,27394,331
    #9,881Ugarte3,27294,360

    Who is named Dewald

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

    96% of people named Dewald identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dewald

    Dewald has the Soundex code D430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D430.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dewald?
    3,275 people in the United States had the surname Dewald in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 94,273 Americans. It ranked 9,875th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dewald?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Dewald identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Dewald getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,258 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,275 in 2010, up 0.5%.