The surname Dundon
An English surname, carried by 1,155 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D535
Origin
English origin
For the place: from Old English dūn + denu (“valley by the hill”). Recorded as Dondeme ^([sic]) in 1086 (DB), and Dunden in 1286. Dundon Hill is east of the village.
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 1,155 people named Dundon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,312 Americans. That is down 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,238.
Who is named Dundon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Dundon identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dundon
Dundon has the Soundex code D535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D535.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dundon come from?
- For the place: from Old English dūn + denu (“valley by the hill”). Recorded as Dondeme ^([sic]) in 1086 (DB), and Dunden in 1286. Dundon Hill is east of the village.
- How common is the surname Dundon?
- 1,155 people in the United States had the surname Dundon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,312 Americans. It ranked 22,319th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dundon?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Dundon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Dundon getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,155 in 2010, down 6.7%.