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    The surname Dowdall

    An Irish place surname, carried by 554 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D340

    Dowdall: #39,659 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Dowdall #39,659, 554 people Dowdall: #39,659 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Dowdall #39,659, 554 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dowdall is more common than 75.6% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Irish habitational surname for someone who came from Dovedale, in Derbyshire; it can also be an Irish adaptation of the English surname Dudley.

    Dowdall is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 554 people named Dowdall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 557,302 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 465.

    #39,659
    rank among US surnames
    554
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +19.1%
    change since 2000 (was #43,708)

    Who is named Dowdall

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

    99% of people named Dowdall identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 99%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Dowdall

    Dowdall has the Soundex code D340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D340.

    Other Irish surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Dowdall come from?
    Irish habitational surname for someone who came from Dovedale, in Derbyshire; it can also be an Irish adaptation of the English surname Dudley.
    How common is the surname Dowdall?
    554 people in the United States had the surname Dowdall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 557,302 Americans. It ranked 39,659th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dowdall?
    In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Dowdall identified as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Dowdall?
    Dowdall is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Dowdall getting more or less common?
    More common. 465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 554 in 2010, up 19%.
    What are other spellings of Dowdall?
    Dowdell.