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    The surname Drees

    A Dutch surname, carried by 2,098 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D620

    Drees: #14,274 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Drees #14,274, 2,098 people Drees: #14,274 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Drees #14,274, 2,098 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drees is more common than 91.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Borrowed from Dutch and German Drees.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,098 people named Drees in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,162 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,034.

    #14,274
    rank among US surnames
    2,098
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.1%
    change since 2000 (was #13,675)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,267Petrus2,100147,022
    #14,268Devaughn2,099147,092
    #14,274Gillian2,098147,162
    #14,279Wiersma2,097147,232

    Who is named Drees

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

    95% of people named Drees identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Drees

    Drees has the Soundex code D620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D620.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Drees come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch and German Drees.
    How common is the surname Drees?
    2,098 people in the United States had the surname Drees in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,162 Americans. It ranked 14,274th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Drees?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Drees identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Drees getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,098 in 2010, up 3.1%.