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    The surname Douthit

    A surname, carried by 2,638 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D330

    Douthit: #11,870 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Douthit #11,870, 2,638 people Douthit: #11,870 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Douthit #11,870, 2,638 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Douthit is more common than 92.7% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Dowthwaite.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,638 people named Douthit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,038 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,637.

    #11,870
    rank among US surnames
    2,638
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #11,057)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,863Bodie2,640116,949
    #11,865Kopec2,639116,993
    #11,870Douthit2,638117,038
    #11,874Bousquet2,637117,082
    #11,877Gove2,636117,127

    Who is named Douthit

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

    80% of people named Douthit identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Douthit

    Douthit has the Soundex code D330, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D330.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Douthit come from?
    Variant of Dowthwaite.
    How common is the surname Douthit?
    2,638 people in the United States had the surname Douthit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,038 Americans. It ranked 11,870th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Douthit?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Douthit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Douthit getting more or less common?
    About as common. 2,637 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,638 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.