How common is the surname Dodrill?

1,219 people in the United States had the surname Dodrill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dodrill?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Dodrill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dodrill getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,276 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, down 4.5%.

The surname Dodrill

A nickname surname, carried by 1,219 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D364

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dodrill is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

From dotterel, a nickname for a foolish person.

Dodrill is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,219 people named Dodrill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. That is down 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,276.

#21,439

rank among US surnames

1,219

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-4.5%

change since 2000 (was #19,563)

Who is named Dodrill

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

97% of people named Dodrill identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander 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

Daughdrill

Dodrill has the Soundex code D364, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D364.

Questions

Where does the surname Dodrill come from?: From dotterel, a nickname for a foolish person.
How common is the surname Dodrill?: 1,219 people in the United States had the surname Dodrill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dodrill?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Dodrill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Dodrill?: Dodrill is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Dodrill getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,276 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, down 4.5%.
What are other spellings of Dodrill?: Daughdrill.