Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Dunlevy

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,057 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D541

    Dunlevy: #23,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Dunlevy #23,881, 1,057 people Dunlevy: #23,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Dunlevy #23,881, 1,057 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dunlevy is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Dunleavy.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,057 people named Dunlevy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,076.

    #23,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,057
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #22,336)

    Who is named Dunlevy

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

    97% of people named Dunlevy identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
    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

    Surnames that sound like Dunlevy

    Dunlevy has the Soundex code D541, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D541.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dunlevy come from?
    Variant of Dunleavy.
    How common is the surname Dunlevy?
    1,057 people in the United States had the surname Dunlevy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. It ranked 23,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dunlevy?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Dunlevy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Dunlevy getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,076 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,057 in 2010, down 1.8%.