How common is the surname Dolph?

1,766 people in the United States had the surname Dolph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,828 Americans. It ranked 16,315th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dolph?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dolph identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dolph getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,784 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,766 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Dolph

A surname, carried by 1,766 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dolph is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

* As a Scandinavian/North Germanic, German, and Dutch surname, shortened from Adolf. * As an English surname, shortened from Delve with rounded vowel. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English delf (“quarry, pit”), related to the above.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,766 people named Dolph in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,828 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,784.

#16,315

rank among US surnames

1,766

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #15,167)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,313	Pauling	1,767	174,729
#16,315	Dolph	1,766	174,828

Who is named Dolph

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

94% of people named Dolph identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dolph

Delph

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

Questions

Where does the surname Dolph come from?: * As a Scandinavian/North Germanic, German, and Dutch surname, shortened from Adolf. * As an English surname, shortened from Delve with rounded vowel. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English delf (“quarry, pit”), related to the above.
How common is the surname Dolph?: 1,766 people in the United States had the surname Dolph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,828 Americans. It ranked 16,315th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dolph?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dolph identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dolph getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,784 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,766 in 2010, down 1.0%.