The surname Downard
A surname, carried by 1,878 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D563
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,878 people named Downard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 164,401 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,820.
#15,571
rank among US surnames
1,878
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+3.2%
change since 2000 (was #14,920)
Who is named Downard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Downard identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Downard has the Soundex code D563, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D563.
Questions
- How common is the surname Downard?
- 1,878 people in the United States had the surname Downard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 164,401 Americans. It ranked 15,571st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Downard?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Downard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Downard getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,820 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,878 in 2010, up 3.2%.