The surname Dunmore
A place surname, carried by 1,469 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D560
Origin
Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress, fort, stronghold”) + mòr (“big, large, great”).
Dunmore is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,469 people named Dunmore in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 210,174 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,374.
Who is named Dunmore
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
69% of people named Dunmore identified as Black (not Hispanic), 24% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 69%
- White (not Hispanic) 24%
- Two or more races 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Dunmore 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 Dunmore come from?
- Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress, fort, stronghold”) + mòr (“big, large, great”).
- How common is the surname Dunmore?
- 1,469 people in the United States had the surname Dunmore in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 210,174 Americans. It ranked 18,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dunmore?
- In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Dunmore identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 24% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Dunmore?
- Dunmore is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Dunmore getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,374 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,469 in 2010, up 6.9%.
- What are other spellings of Dunmore?
- Dunmire.