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    The surname Dudney

    An English surname, carried by 642 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D350

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dudney is more common than 78.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English Deudenay, an anglicization of the French characteristical surname Dieudonné (“God-given”).

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 642 people named Dudney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 480,912 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 613.

    #35,096
    rank among US surnames
    642
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #34,856)

    Who is named Dudney

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

    93% of people named Dudney identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Deudney
    • Dewdney
    • Doodney
    • Doudney
    • Dudeney
    • Dudny

    Dudney has the Soundex code D350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D350.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dudney come from?
    From Middle English Deudenay, an anglicization of the French characteristical surname Dieudonné (“God-given”).
    How common is the surname Dudney?
    642 people in the United States had the surname Dudney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 480,912 Americans. It ranked 35,096th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dudney?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Dudney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dudney getting more or less common?
    More common. 613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 642 in 2010, up 4.7%.
    What are other spellings of Dudney?
    Deudney, Dewdney, Doodney, Doudney, Dudeney and Dudny.