How common is the surname Dorrance?

1,319 people in the United States had the surname Dorrance in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dorrance?

In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Dorrance identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Dorrance?

Anson Dorrance, American soccer player-coach.

Where is the surname Dorrance most common?

Wikidata records people named Dorrance in the United States.

Is the surname Dorrance getting more or less common?

More common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, up 24%.

The surname Dorrance

A surname, carried by 1,319 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dorrance is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,319 people named Dorrance in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,068.

#20,201

rank among US surnames

1,319

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+23.5%

change since 2000 (was #22,481)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,192	Ruppe	1,320	233,898
#20,201	Redington	1,319	234,075

Who is named Dorrance

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

88% of people named Dorrance identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 88%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9.9%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Dorrances

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Anson Dorrance
American soccer player-coach, born 1951

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dorrance

Durrance

Dorrance has the Soundex code D652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D652.

Questions

How common is the surname Dorrance?: 1,319 people in the United States had the surname Dorrance in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dorrance?: In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Dorrance identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Dorrance?: Anson Dorrance, American soccer player-coach.
Where is the surname Dorrance most common?: Wikidata records people named Dorrance in the United States.
Is the surname Dorrance getting more or less common?: More common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, up 24%.