How common is the surname Dube?

9,136 people in the United States had the surname Dube in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,794 Americans. It ranked 3,881st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Dube?

Opha Pauline Dube, Botswanan environmental scientist, followed by Joseph Dube.

Where is the surname Dube most common?

Wikidata records people named Dube in Botswana and the United States.

Is the surname Dube getting more or less common?

More common. 8,484 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,136 in 2010, up 7.7%.

The surname Dube

A surname, carried by 9,136 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dube is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,136 people named Dube in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,794 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,484.

#3,881

rank among US surnames

9,136

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+7.7%

change since 2000 (was #3,845)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,872	Runyon	9,153	33,732
#3,873	Pitt	9,151	33,739
#3,874	Ainsworth	9,149	33,746
#3,876	Calkins	9,146	33,757
#3,877	Gaddis	9,142	33,772
#3,879	McClintock	9,141	33,776
#3,880	Worden	9,139	33,783

Who is named Dube

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

89% of people named Dube identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Dubes

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Opha Pauline Dube
Botswanan environmental scientist, born 1960
Joseph Dube
American weightlifter, 1944–2025
Jan Roháč of Dubá
Bohemian general, 1400–1437

Notable Dubes come mostly from Botswana (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dube

Dube has the Soundex code D100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D100.

Questions

How common is the surname Dube?: 9,136 people in the United States had the surname Dube in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,794 Americans. It ranked 3,881st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dube?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Dube identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Dube?: Opha Pauline Dube, Botswanan environmental scientist, followed by Joseph Dube.
Where is the surname Dube most common?: Wikidata records people named Dube in Botswana and the United States.
Is the surname Dube getting more or less common?: More common. 8,484 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,136 in 2010, up 7.7%.