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    The surname Drown

    A surname, carried by 4,321 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D650

    Drown: #7,684 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Drown #7,684, 4,321 people Drown: #7,684 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Drown #7,684, 4,321 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drown is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,321 people named Drown in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,452 Americans. That is up 41% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,076.

    #7,684
    rank among US surnames
    4,321
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +40.5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,690)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,677Espitia4,32471,403
    #7,680Kushner4,32371,419
    #7,682Bevins4,32271,436
    #7,684Drown4,32171,452
    #7,689Gerhart4,31971,485
    #7,690Alleman4,31871,502

    Who is named Drown

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

    74% of people named Drown identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Drown

    Drown has the Soundex code D650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D650.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Drown?
    4,321 people in the United States had the surname Drown in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,452 Americans. It ranked 7,684th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Drown?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Drown identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Drown getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,076 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,321 in 2010, up 41%.