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    The surname Dray

    A surname, carried by 1,835 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D600

    Dray: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dray #15,857, 1,835 people Dray: #15,857 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dray #15,857, 1,835 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dray is more common than 90.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,835 people named Dray in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,752.

    #15,857
    rank among US surnames
    1,835
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #15,375)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,854Perezlopez1,836168,162
    #15,857Dority1,835168,254
    #15,864Leonardi1,834168,345

    Who is named Dray

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

    91% of people named Dray identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dray

    Dray has the Soundex code D600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dray?
    1,835 people in the United States had the surname Dray in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. It ranked 15,857th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dray?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Dray identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dray getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,752 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,835 in 2010, up 4.7%.