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    The surname Dority

    A surname, carried by 1,835 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D630

    Dority: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dority #15,857, 1,835 people Dority: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dority #15,857, 1,835 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dority is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,835 people named Dority in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,744.

    #15,857
    rank among US surnames
    1,835
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #15,428)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,854Perezlopez1,836168,162
    #15,857Dority1,835168,254
    #15,864Leonardi1,834168,345

    Who is named Dority

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

    73% of people named Dority identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dority

    Dority has the Soundex code D630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D630.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dority?
    1,835 people in the United States had the surname Dority in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. It ranked 15,857th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dority?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Dority identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dority getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,744 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,835 in 2010, up 5.2%.