Where does the surname Drummond come from?

Drummond is Scottish Gaelic in origin.

How common is the surname Drummond?

17,922 people in the United States had the surname Drummond in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,227 Americans. It ranked 2,014th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Drummond?

Andre Drummond, American basketball player (born 1993), followed by Jon Drummond.

Where is the surname Drummond most common?

Wikidata records people named Drummond in the United States, Brazil and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 other country.

Is the surname Drummond getting more or less common?

More common. 17,032 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,922 in 2010, up 5.2%.

The surname Drummond

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 17,922 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). Drummond is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Drummond is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 17,922 people named Drummond in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,227 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,032.

#2,014

rank among US surnames

17,922

people in 2010

6.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.2%

change since 2000 (was #1,937)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,005	Hay	18,029	17,125
#2,006	Platt	18,022	17,132
#2,007	Fernandes	18,018	17,135
#2,008	Abreu	17,998	17,154
#2,009	Doty	17,965	17,186
#2,010	Crum	17,944	17,206
#2,011	Yi	17,934	17,216

Who is named Drummond

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

66% of people named Drummond identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 66%
Black (not Hispanic) 29%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Drummonds

11 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Andre Drummond
American basketball player (born 1993)
Jon Drummond
American track athlete, born 1968
Alice Drummond
American actress (1928–2016)
Ryan Drummond
American actor, singer, and voiceover artist, born 1973
James Drummond
Australian botanist (1787-1863)
Isabelle Drummond
Brazilian actress, born 1994
Thomas Drummond
British engineer (1797-1840)
Orlando Drummond
Brazilian actor (1919–2021)
Gordon Drummond
British Army general (1772-1854)
Roberto Drummond
Brazilian writer, 1933–2002
Tim Drummond
American bassist, 1940–2015

Notable Drummonds come mostly from the United States (5), Brazil (3) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Drummond

DeArmond

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

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Drummond come from?: Drummond is Scottish Gaelic in origin.
How common is the surname Drummond?: 17,922 people in the United States had the surname Drummond in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,227 Americans. It ranked 2,014th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Drummond?: In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Drummond identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Drummond?: Andre Drummond, American basketball player (born 1993), followed by Jon Drummond.
Where is the surname Drummond most common?: Wikidata records people named Drummond in the United States, Brazil and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 other country.
What type of surname is Drummond?: Drummond is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Drummond getting more or less common?: More common. 17,032 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,922 in 2010, up 5.2%.