The surname Dismukes
A French surname, carried by 1,566 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D252
Origin
French origin
Americanized form of French Des Meaux.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,566 people named Dismukes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,459.
Who is named Dismukes
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
60% of people named Dismukes identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 60%
- Black (not Hispanic) 35%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Dismukes has the Soundex code D252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D252.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dismukes come from?
- Americanized form of French Des Meaux.
- How common is the surname Dismukes?
- 1,566 people in the United States had the surname Dismukes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. It ranked 17,864th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dismukes?
- In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Dismukes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dismukes getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,459 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,566 in 2010, up 7.3%.