The surname Dry
A surname, carried by 2,379 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex D600
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,379 people named Dry in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 129,780 Americans. That is down 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,070.
#12,921
rank among US surnames
2,379
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-22.5%
change since 2000 (was #9,708)
Who is named Dry
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Dry identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 7.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Dry has the Soundex code D600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D600.
Questions
- How common is the surname Dry?
- 2,379 people in the United States had the surname Dry in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,780 Americans. It ranked 12,921st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dry?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Dry identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.4% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Dry getting more or less common?
- Less common. 3,070 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,379 in 2010, down 23%.