# Dunmore (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dunmore/  
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.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,469 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,703 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 210,174 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.9% (1,374 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Dunmire |

## Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress, fort, stronghold”) + mòr (“big, large, great”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dunmore 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) | 24% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 69% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Two or more races | 4.0% |

## Similar surnames

Dunmire, Damore, Dummer, Danner, Donner, Downer, Demaria, Diener, Deemer, Demery, Diemer, Dimauro.

## 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.