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    The surname Drye

    A surname, carried by 2,018 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D600

    Drye: #14,724 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Drye #14,724, 2,018 people Drye: #14,724 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Drye #14,724, 2,018 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Drye is more common than 90.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,018 people named Drye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 152,996 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,904.

    #14,724
    rank among US surnames
    2,018
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #14,404)

    Who is named Drye

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

    75% of people named Drye identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • 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 Drye

    Drye 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 Drye?
    2,018 people in the United States had the surname Drye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 152,996 Americans. It ranked 14,724th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Drye?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Drye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Drye getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,904 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,018 in 2010, up 6.0%.