The surname Dorton
A surname, carried by 2,788 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D635
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,788 people named Dorton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 110,741 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,728.
#11,321
rank among US surnames
2,788
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+2.2%
change since 2000 (was #10,737)
Who is named Dorton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Dorton identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.0%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dorton
Dorton has the Soundex code D635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D635.
Questions
- How common is the surname Dorton?
- 2,788 people in the United States had the surname Dorton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 110,741 Americans. It ranked 11,321st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dorton?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Dorton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dorton getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,728 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,788 in 2010, up 2.2%.