The surname Dorrough
A surname, carried by 1,258 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,258 people named Dorrough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 245,426 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,285.
#20,937
rank among US surnames
1,258
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-2.1%
change since 2000 (was #19,455)
Who is named Dorrough
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
63% of people named Dorrough identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 63%
- Black (not Hispanic) 29%
- Two or more races 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Dorrough has the Soundex code D620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Dorrough?
- 1,258 people in the United States had the surname Dorrough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,426 Americans. It ranked 20,937th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dorrough?
- In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Dorrough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dorrough getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,285 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,258 in 2010, down 2.1%.