# Dunnett (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dunnett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 306 |
| US rank (2010) | 64,891 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,008,972 people |
| Change since 2000 | -4.1% (319 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, variant of Dunnet, a place in Caithness, Scotland, probably from Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress, stronghold”). * As an English surname, from the Old French surname Donat, from Latin Donatus (see Donat). * Also as an English surname, from the placename Downhead in Somerset or several places called Donhead, both from Old English dūn (“hill, down”) + hēafod (“head end”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dunnett 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.3% |

## Similar surnames

Dennett, Dent, Deanda, Donato, Damato, Dinwiddie, Demuth, Dendy, DeMott, DiMatteo, Dandy, Donati.

## 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.