The surname Dolphin
A Norse surname, carried by 1,795 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D415
Origin
Norse origin
From Middle English Dolfin, from Old Norse Dólgfinnr (given name), from dólgr (“enemy”) + Finnr (“Sami”).
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,795 people named Dolphin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,818.
Who is named Dolphin
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Dolphin identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dolphin
Dolphin has the Soundex code D415, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D415.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dolphin come from?
- From Middle English Dolfin, from Old Norse Dólgfinnr (given name), from dólgr (“enemy”) + Finnr (“Sami”).
- How common is the surname Dolphin?
- 1,795 people in the United States had the surname Dolphin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. It ranked 16,125th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dolphin?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Dolphin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dolphin getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,795 in 2010, down 1.3%.