# Dome (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dome/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 634 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,489 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 486,980 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.6% (658 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * English occupational surname for a judge, from Old English dēma (“judge”). * Borrowed from French Dome, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Hungarian Döme, a hypocoristic form of the personal name Demeter.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dome in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Similar surnames

Dame, Dohm, Doane, Doney, Done, Dunn, Dean, Donahue, Downey, Doan, Denny, Dinh.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.