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The surname Dudash

A surname, carried by 1,319 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D320

Dudash: #20,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dudash #20,201, 1,319 people Dudash: #20,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dudash #20,201, 1,319 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dudash is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

Americanized spelling of Hungarian Dudaś or Slovak, Czech, Carpathian Rusyn, Ukrainian and Serbo-Croatian Dudáš, all from дуда (duda, “pipe”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,319 people named Dudash in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. That is down 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,394.

#20,201
rank among US surnames
1,319
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-5.4%
change since 2000 (was #18,340)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#20,192Ruppe1,320233,898
#20,201Redington1,319234,075

Who is named Dudash

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

96% of people named Dudash identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dudash

Dudash has the Soundex code D320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D320.

Questions

Where does the surname Dudash come from?
Americanized spelling of Hungarian Dudaś or Slovak, Czech, Carpathian Rusyn, Ukrainian and Serbo-Croatian Dudáš, all from дуда (duda, “pipe”).
How common is the surname Dudash?
1,319 people in the United States had the surname Dudash in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dudash?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Dudash identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dudash getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,394 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, down 5.4%.