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    The surname Dunsmore

    An English place surname, carried by 1,753 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D525

    Dunsmore: #16,415 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dunsmore #16,415, 1,753 people Dunsmore: #16,415 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dunsmore #16,415, 1,753 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dunsmore is more common than 89.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either: # Old English personal name Dunna + mōr (“moor”). # Old English dūn (“hill”), genitive singular dūnes + mōr (“moor”).

    Dunsmore 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 1,753 people named Dunsmore in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,124 Americans. That is down 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,861.

    #16,415
    rank among US surnames
    1,753
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.8%
    change since 2000 (was #14,653)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,407Dillion1,754176,024
    #16,415Pietsch1,753176,124
    #16,420Bardsley1,752176,225

    Who is named Dunsmore

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

    96% of people named Dunsmore identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as two or more races and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dunsmore

    Dunsmore has the Soundex code D525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D525.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dunsmore come from?
    From either: # Old English personal name Dunna + mōr (“moor”). # Old English dūn (“hill”), genitive singular dūnes + mōr (“moor”).
    How common is the surname Dunsmore?
    1,753 people in the United States had the surname Dunsmore in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,124 Americans. It ranked 16,415th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dunsmore?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Dunsmore identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Dunsmore?
    Dunsmore is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Dunsmore getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,861 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,753 in 2010, down 5.8%.