How common is the surname Donohoe?

3,103 people in the United States had the surname Donohoe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Donohoe?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Donohoe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Donohoe getting more or less common?

More common. 2,994 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Donohoe

A surname, carried by 3,103 people in the United States.

3 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). Donohoe is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

From O'Donohue.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,103 people named Donohoe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,994.

#10,382

rank among US surnames

3,103

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #9,939)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,373	McLamb	3,106	99,403
#10,377	Fromm	3,105	99,435
#10,380	Hosier	3,104	99,467
#10,382	Donohoe	3,103	99,499
#10,387	Tyus	3,102	99,531
#10,391	Carnevale	3,101	99,563

Who is named Donohoe

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

94% of people named Donohoe identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Donohoe

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

Questions

Where does the surname Donohoe come from?: From O'Donohue.
How common is the surname Donohoe?: 3,103 people in the United States had the surname Donohoe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Donohoe?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Donohoe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Donohoe getting more or less common?: More common. 2,994 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, up 3.6%.