How common is the surname Dolby?

1,401 people in the United States had the surname Dolby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,375 Americans. It ranked 19,321st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Dolby?

Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013).

Where is the surname Dolby most common?

Wikidata records people named Dolby in the United States.

How do you pronounce Dolby?

Dolby is /ˈdoʊl.bi/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Dolby getting more or less common?

More common. 1,398 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,401 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Dolby

A surname, carried by 1,401 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈdoʊl.bi/ 2 syllables Soundex D410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dolby is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,401 people named Dolby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,375 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,398.

#19,321

rank among US surnames

1,401

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,298)

Who is named Dolby

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

83% of people named Dolby identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Black (not Hispanic) 13%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Dolbys

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ray Dolby
American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Dolby

Dalby

Dolby has the Soundex code D410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D410.

Questions

How common is the surname Dolby?: 1,401 people in the United States had the surname Dolby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,375 Americans. It ranked 19,321st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dolby?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Dolby identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Dolby?: Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013).
Where is the surname Dolby most common?: Wikidata records people named Dolby in the United States.
How do you pronounce Dolby?: Dolby is /ˈdoʊl.bi/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Dolby getting more or less common?: More common. 1,398 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,401 in 2010, up 0.2%.