# Dundas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dundas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,520 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,272 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 203,122 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.8% (1,436 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

The Scottish name is from Scottish Gaelic, from Old Irish dùn (“fort”) + deas (“south”), perhaps via Dundas Castle, while the places in Canada are named after Lord Melville, Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dundas in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 13% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 6.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Dundas in the United States, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Dundas

- Jennifer Dundas, actress
- David Dundas, British army officer and military writer (1735-1820)
- Francis Dundas, British Army general (1759-1824)

## Similar surnames

Dantzler, Dantes, Dantas.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.