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    The surname Doughman

    An occupational surname, carried by 644 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D255

    Doughman: #35,016 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Doughman #35,016, 644 people Doughman: #35,016 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Doughman #35,016, 644 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Doughman is more common than 78.4% of them.

    Origin

    Possibly an altered spelling of Dowman or an occupational surname for a baker, from dough + -man.

    Doughman is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 644 people named Doughman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 479,419 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 646.

    #35,016
    rank among US surnames
    644
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #33,333)

    Who is named Doughman

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

    93% of people named Doughman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    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 Doughman

    Doughman has the Soundex code D255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D255.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Doughman come from?
    Possibly an altered spelling of Dowman or an occupational surname for a baker, from dough + -man.
    How common is the surname Doughman?
    644 people in the United States had the surname Doughman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 479,419 Americans. It ranked 35,016th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Doughman?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Doughman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Doughman?
    Doughman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Doughman getting more or less common?
    Less common. 646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 644 in 2010, down 0.3%.