How common is the surname Drum?

4,468 people in the United States had the surname Drum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,102 Americans. It ranked 7,459th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Drum?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Drum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Drum getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,621 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,468 in 2010, down 3.3%.

The surname Drum

A surname, carried by 4,468 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drum is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

* As an Irish surname, from Droma, a personal name from druim (“ridge”) * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from druim (“ridge”) * As a German surname, from Middle High German trum and Middle Low German drum (“woodblock”), both probably from Proto-Germanic *trumaz.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,468 people named Drum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,102 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,621.

#7,459

rank among US surnames

4,468

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

-3.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,729)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,453	Deen	4,471	69,055
#7,455	Dressler	4,470	69,071
#7,457	Bessette	4,469	69,086
#7,459	Swaney	4,468	69,102
#7,461	Shockey	4,467	69,117
#7,463	Herren	4,466	69,132

Who is named Drum

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

92% of people named Drum identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Drum

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

Questions

Where does the surname Drum come from?: * As an Irish surname, from Droma, a personal name from druim (“ridge”) * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from druim (“ridge”) * As a German surname, from Middle High German trum and Middle Low German drum (“woodblock”), both probably from Proto-Germanic *trumaz.
How common is the surname Drum?: 4,468 people in the United States had the surname Drum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,102 Americans. It ranked 7,459th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Drum?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Drum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Drum getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,621 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,468 in 2010, down 3.3%.