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The surname Dunmire

A surname, carried by 2,035 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D560

Dunmire: #14,624 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dunmire #14,624, 2,035 people Dunmire: #14,624 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dunmire #14,624, 2,035 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dunmire is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

Perhaps a variant of Dunmore.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,035 people named Dunmire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,718 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,025.

#14,624
rank among US surnames
2,035
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+0.5%
change since 2000 (was #13,724)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,617Maza2,036151,643
#14,624McQuillen2,035151,718
#14,631Lyda2,034151,792

Who is named Dunmire

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

97% of people named Dunmire identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 97%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dunmire

Dunmire has the Soundex code D560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D560.

Questions

Where does the surname Dunmire come from?
Perhaps a variant of Dunmore.
How common is the surname Dunmire?
2,035 people in the United States had the surname Dunmire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,718 Americans. It ranked 14,624th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dunmire?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Dunmire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dunmire getting more or less common?
More common. 2,025 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,035 in 2010, up 0.5%.