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The surname Dingman

A German surname, carried by 4,974 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D525

Dingman: #6,781 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dingman #6,781, 4,974 people Dingman: #6,781 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dingman #6,781, 4,974 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dingman is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

German origin

Variant of Dingmann.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,974 people named Dingman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,072 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,791.

#6,781
rank among US surnames
4,974
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.8%
change since 2000 (was #6,532)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,775Volz4,97862,022
#6,776Youngs4,97762,034
#6,777Radke4,97662,047
#6,781Guyer4,97462,072
#6,784Chee4,97362,084

Who is named Dingman

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

94% of people named Dingman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 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 Dingman

Dingman has the Soundex code D525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D525.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dingman come from?
Variant of Dingmann.
How common is the surname Dingman?
4,974 people in the United States had the surname Dingman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,072 Americans. It ranked 6,781st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dingman?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dingman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dingman getting more or less common?
More common. 4,791 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,974 in 2010, up 3.8%.