The surname Dunnington
An English place surname, carried by 1,024 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex D552
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name Dunna + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Dunnington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,024 people named Dunnington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 301,509 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,050.
Who is named Dunnington
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Dunnington identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 13%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dunnington
Dunnington has the Soundex code D552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D552.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Dunnington come from?
- From the Old English personal name Dunna + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Dunnington?
- 1,024 people in the United States had the surname Dunnington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 301,509 Americans. It ranked 24,446th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dunnington?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Dunnington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Dunnington?
- Dunnington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Dunnington getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,024 in 2010, down 2.5%.