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    The surname Draughn

    An Irish surname, carried by 2,186 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D625

    Draughn: #13,830 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Draughn #13,830, 2,186 people Draughn: #13,830 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Draughn #13,830, 2,186 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Draughn is more common than 91.5% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Drohan.

    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 2,186 people named Draughn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 141,238 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,177.

    #13,830
    rank among US surnames
    2,186
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #12,938)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,824Petrey2,187141,173
    #13,830Gammons2,186141,238
    #13,834Balsamo2,185141,302

    Who is named Draughn

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

    55% of people named Draughn identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Draughn

    Draughn has the Soundex code D625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D625.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Draughn come from?
    Variant of Drohan.
    How common is the surname Draughn?
    2,186 people in the United States had the surname Draughn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 141,238 Americans. It ranked 13,830th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Draughn?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Draughn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Draughn getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,177 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,186 in 2010, up 0.4%.