How common is the surname Doney?

2,743 people in the United States had the surname Doney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,558 Americans. It ranked 11,474th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Doney?

In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Doney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Doney getting more or less common?

More common. 2,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,743 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Doney

A surname, carried by 2,743 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Doney is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,743 people named Doney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,558 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,683.

#11,474

rank among US surnames

2,743

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #10,888)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,466	Virgil	2,746	112,435
#11,469	Breshears	2,745	112,476
#11,472	Mattis	2,744	112,517
#11,474	McConville	2,743	112,558
#11,476	Araya	2,742	112,599
#11,478	Heineman	2,741	112,640

Who is named Doney

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

78% of people named Doney identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 78%
American Indian and Alaska Native 14%
Two or more races 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Doney

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

Questions

How common is the surname Doney?: 2,743 people in the United States had the surname Doney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,558 Americans. It ranked 11,474th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Doney?: In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Doney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Doney getting more or less common?: More common. 2,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,743 in 2010, up 2.2%.