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    The surname Doddridge

    An English place surname, carried by 428 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D363

    Doddridge: #49,177 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Doddridge #49,177, 428 people Doddridge: #49,177 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Doddridge #49,177, 428 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Doddridge is more common than 69.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from the Old English personal name Dodda + hrycġ (“ridge”).

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 428 people named Doddridge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 721,368 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 405.

    #49,177
    rank among US surnames
    428
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #48,877)

    Who is named Doddridge

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

    93% of people named Doddridge identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Duddridge

    Doddridge has the Soundex code D363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D363.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Doddridge come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from the Old English personal name Dodda + hrycġ (“ridge”).
    How common is the surname Doddridge?
    428 people in the United States had the surname Doddridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 721,368 Americans. It ranked 49,177th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Doddridge?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Doddridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Doddridge?
    Doddridge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Doddridge getting more or less common?
    More common. 405 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 428 in 2010, up 5.7%.
    What are other spellings of Doddridge?
    Duddridge.