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    The surname Drennon

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,196 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D655

    Drennon: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Drennon #21,750, 1,196 people Drennon: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Drennon #21,750, 1,196 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drennon is more common than 86.6% 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 1,196 people named Drennon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. That is up 9.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,090.

    #21,750
    rank among US surnames
    1,196
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.7%
    change since 2000 (was #22,132)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,750Celli1,196258,148
    #21,759Finnigan1,195258,364

    Who is named Drennon

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

    66% of people named Drennon identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Drennon

    Drennon 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 Drennon come from?
    Variant of Drennan.
    How common is the surname Drennon?
    1,196 people in the United States had the surname Drennon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. It ranked 21,750th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Drennon?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Drennon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Drennon getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,090 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,196 in 2010, up 9.7%.