How common is the surname Dome?

634 people in the United States had the surname Dome in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 486,980 Americans. It ranked 35,489th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dome?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Dome identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dome getting more or less common?

Less common. 658 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 634 in 2010, down 3.6%.

The surname Dome

A French occupational surname, carried by 634 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dome is more common than 78.1% of them.

Origin

French origin

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.

Dome is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 634 people named Dome in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 486,980 Americans. That is down 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 658.

#35,489

rank among US surnames

634

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-3.6%

change since 2000 (was #32,856)

Who is named Dome

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

91% of people named Dome identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
Two or more races 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

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Surnames that sound like Dome

Dome has the Soundex code D500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D500.

Other French surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Dome come from?: 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.
How common is the surname Dome?: 634 people in the United States had the surname Dome in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 486,980 Americans. It ranked 35,489th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dome?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Dome identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Dome?: Dome is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Dome getting more or less common?: Less common. 658 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 634 in 2010, down 3.6%.