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    The surname Dollard

    A nickname surname, carried by 1,555 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D463

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dollard is more common than 88.9% of them.

    Origin

    *English: Nickname for a dull or stupid person, from dull + -ard; or an adaptation of Irish Ó Dhollaird. *Other languages: can be related to pain/suffering, similar to Dolores; can be about mourning (see in Filae); or it can derive from rivers named Dollart or Dullaert (Middle Dutch “madman, savage”).

    Dollard 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 1,555 people named Dollard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,550 Americans. That is up 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,420.

    #17,970
    rank among US surnames
    1,555
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.5%
    change since 2000 (was #18,101)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,970Dollard1,555198,550
    #17,975Archila1,554198,678

    Who is named Dollard

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

    71% of people named Dollard identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Dollards

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • John Dollard
      American psychologist (1900-1980)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Dullard

    Surnames that sound like Dollard

    Dollard has the Soundex code D463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D463.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dollard come from?
    *English: Nickname for a dull or stupid person, from dull + -ard; or an adaptation of Irish Ó Dhollaird. *Other languages: can be related to pain/suffering, similar to Dolores; can be about mourning (see in Filae); or it can derive from rivers named Dollart or Dullaert (Middle Dutch “madman,…
    How common is the surname Dollard?
    1,555 people in the United States had the surname Dollard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,550 Americans. It ranked 17,970th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dollard?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Dollard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Dollard?
    John Dollard, American psychologist (1900-1980).
    Where is the surname Dollard most common?
    Wikidata records people named Dollard in the United States.
    What type of surname is Dollard?
    Dollard is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Dollard getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,420 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,555 in 2010, up 9.5%.
    What are other spellings of Dollard?
    Dullard.