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    The surname Duty

    A surname, carried by 4,685 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D300

    Duty: #7,138 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Duty #7,138, 4,685 people Duty: #7,138 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Duty #7,138, 4,685 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Duty is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,685 people named Duty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,901 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,538.

    #7,138
    rank among US surnames
    4,685
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,832)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,132Schulman4,68965,845
    #7,133Brunelle4,68865,859
    #7,135Killingsworth4,68665,887
    #7,138Millsap4,68565,901
    #7,140Boggess4,68465,915

    Who is named Duty

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

    89% of people named Duty identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Dutys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Kenton Duty
      American actor, born 1995

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Duty

    Duty has the Soundex code D300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Duty?
    4,685 people in the United States had the surname Duty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,901 Americans. It ranked 7,138th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Duty?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Duty identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Duty?
    Kenton Duty, American actor.
    Where is the surname Duty most common?
    Wikidata records people named Duty in the United States.
    Is the surname Duty getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,538 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,685 in 2010, up 3.2%.