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    The surname Dowdy

    An Irish surname, carried by 13,468 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D300

    Dowdy: #2,678 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Dowdy #2,678, 13,468 people Dowdy: #2,678 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dowdy #2,678, 13,468 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dowdy is more common than 98.3% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Dowd.

    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 13,468 people named Dowdy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,924 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,249.

    #2,678
    rank among US surnames
    13,468
    people in 2010
    4.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,494)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,669Pool13,50522,862
    #2,670Bearden13,49922,872
    #2,671Roldan13,49822,873
    #2,672Hemphill13,49522,879
    #2,673Emmons13,49322,882
    #2,674McNulty13,48322,899
    #2,675Newberry13,48222,901

    Who is named Dowdy

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

    77% of people named Dowdy identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Dowdy

    Dowdy has the Soundex code D300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D300.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dowdy come from?
    Variant of Dowd.
    How common is the surname Dowdy?
    13,468 people in the United States had the surname Dowdy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,924 Americans. It ranked 2,678th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dowdy?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Dowdy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dowdy getting more or less common?
    More common. 13,249 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,468 in 2010, up 1.7%.