How common is the surname Dimmick?

2,081 people in the United States had the surname Dimmick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,364 Americans. It ranked 14,368th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dimmick?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dimmick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dimmick getting more or less common?

More common. 2,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,081 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Dimmick

A place surname, carried by 2,081 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dimmick is more common than 91.1% of them.

Origin

Habitational surname from Dymock, in Gloucestershire, named perhaps from a British word akin to Welsh tymoch (“pigsty”), but more probably from Proto-Celtic *din (“fort”) + an adjectival suffix.

Dimmick is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,081 people named Dimmick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 148,364 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,065.

#14,368

rank among US surnames

2,081

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,503)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,363	Heinrichs	2,082	148,293
#14,368	Artman	2,081	148,364
#14,374	Sclafani	2,080	148,435

Who is named Dimmick

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

95% of people named Dimmick identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Dimick
Dimmock

Surnames that sound like Dimmick

Dimick

Dimmick has the Soundex code D520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D520.

Questions

Where does the surname Dimmick come from?: Habitational surname from Dymock, in Gloucestershire, named perhaps from a British word akin to Welsh tymoch (“pigsty”), but more probably from Proto-Celtic *din (“fort”) + an adjectival suffix.
How common is the surname Dimmick?: 2,081 people in the United States had the surname Dimmick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 148,364 Americans. It ranked 14,368th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dimmick?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dimmick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Dimmick?: Dimmick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Dimmick getting more or less common?: More common. 2,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,081 in 2010, up 0.8%.
What are other spellings of Dimmick?: Dimick and Dimmock.