The surname Dills
A surname, carried by 3,878 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex D420
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,878 people named Dills in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,615 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,713.
#8,494
rank among US surnames
3,878
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+4.4%
change since 2000 (was #8,217)
Who is named Dills
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Dills identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Dills has the Soundex code D420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D420.
Questions
- How common is the surname Dills?
- 3,878 people in the United States had the surname Dills in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,615 Americans. It ranked 8,494th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dills?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Dills identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dills getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,713 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,878 in 2010, up 4.4%.