How common is the surname Doolan?

1,539 people in the United States had the surname Doolan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,614 Americans. It ranked 18,098th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Doolan?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Doolan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Doolan getting more or less common?

More common. 1,452 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,539 in 2010, up 6.0%.

The surname Doolan

A surname, carried by 1,539 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Doolan is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,539 people named Doolan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,614 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,452.

#18,098

rank among US surnames

1,539

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #17,781)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,089	Frasca	1,541	200,354
#18,090	Zeh	1,540	200,484
#18,098	Quayle	1,539	200,614
#18,106	Chumbley	1,538	200,745

Who is named Doolan

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

93% of people named Doolan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Two or more races 1.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Doolan

Doolan has the Soundex code D450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D450.

Questions

How common is the surname Doolan?: 1,539 people in the United States had the surname Doolan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,614 Americans. It ranked 18,098th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Doolan?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Doolan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Doolan getting more or less common?: More common. 1,452 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,539 in 2010, up 6.0%.