How common is the surname Deweese?

6,095 people in the United States had the surname Deweese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,656 Americans. It ranked 5,686th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Deweese?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Deweese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Deweese getting more or less common?

About as common. 6,094 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,095 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Deweese

A surname, carried by 6,095 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deweese is more common than 96.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,095 people named Deweese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 50,656 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,094.

#5,686

rank among US surnames

6,095

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #5,259)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,677	Massa	6,111	50,523
#5,678	Edens	6,110	50,531
#5,679	Wooley	6,109	50,539
#5,680	Lamm	6,105	50,573
#5,681	Gosselin	6,104	50,581
#5,683	Aguila	6,103	50,589
#5,684	Radtke	6,099	50,622

Who is named Deweese

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

95% of people named Deweese identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Deweese

Deweese 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 Deweese?: 6,095 people in the United States had the surname Deweese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,656 Americans. It ranked 5,686th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Deweese?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Deweese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Deweese getting more or less common?: About as common. 6,094 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,095 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.