How common is the surname Dull?

4,818 people in the United States had the surname Dull in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,082 Americans. It ranked 6,961st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dull?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Dull identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dull getting more or less common?

More common. 4,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,818 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Dull

A place surname, carried by 4,818 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dull is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, from dialectal tull (“stout, corpulent”) (see the adjective doll), or a variant of Thiel. See Duell. * As a Scottish surname, it is a habitational name from Dull in Perthshire (see Etymology 2). * As an English surname, variant of Dill, Doel.

Dull is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,818 people named Dull in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,082 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,798.

#6,961

rank among US surnames

4,818

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,520)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,956	Waltman	4,822	64,029
#6,958	Suttles	4,821	64,042
#6,960	Rolle	4,819	64,068
#6,961	Dull	4,818	64,082

Who is named Dull

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

93% of people named Dull identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dull

Dull has the Soundex code D400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D400.

Questions

Where does the surname Dull come from?: * As a German surname, from dialectal tull (“stout, corpulent”) (see the adjective doll), or a variant of Thiel. See Duell. * As a Scottish surname, it is a habitational name from Dull in Perthshire (see Etymology 2). * As an English surname, variant of Dill, Doel.
How common is the surname Dull?: 4,818 people in the United States had the surname Dull in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,082 Americans. It ranked 6,961st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dull?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Dull identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Dull?: Dull is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Dull getting more or less common?: More common. 4,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,818 in 2010, up 0.4%.