How common is the surname Drennen?

2,340 people in the United States had the surname Drennen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,943 Americans. It ranked 13,101st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Drennen getting more or less common?

More common. 2,240 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,340 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Drennen

An Irish surname, carried by 2,340 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D655

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drennen is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Drennan.

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 2,340 people named Drennen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,943 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,240.

#13,101

rank among US surnames

2,340

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #12,667)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,096	Highland	2,342	131,830
#13,099	Lipford	2,341	131,886
#13,101	Vansant	2,340	131,943
#13,107	Glowacki	2,339	131,999
#13,109	Pabst	2,338	132,055

Who is named Drennen

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

94% of people named Drennen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Drennen

Drennen has the Soundex code D655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D655.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Drennen come from?: Variant of Drennan.
How common is the surname Drennen?: 2,340 people in the United States had the surname Drennen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,943 Americans. It ranked 13,101st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Drennen?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Drennen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Drennen getting more or less common?: More common. 2,240 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,340 in 2010, up 4.5%.