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The surname Dittman

A German surname, carried by 2,892 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D355

Dittman: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dittman #10,998, 2,892 people Dittman: #10,998 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dittman #10,998, 2,892 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dittman is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

Variant of Dittmann.

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 2,892 people named Dittman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,881.

#10,998
rank among US surnames
2,892
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+0.4%
change since 2000 (was #10,255)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,993Chupp2,893106,722
#10,998Killebrew2,892106,758
#11,003Charpentier2,891106,795
#11,007Hipolito2,890106,832

Who is named Dittman

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

92% of people named Dittman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dittman

Dittman has the Soundex code D355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D355.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dittman come from?
Variant of Dittmann.
How common is the surname Dittman?
2,892 people in the United States had the surname Dittman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,758 Americans. It ranked 10,998th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dittman?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Dittman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Dittman getting more or less common?
More common. 2,881 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,892 in 2010, up 0.4%.