How common is the surname Dysart?

1,781 people in the United States had the surname Dysart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. It ranked 16,214th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Dysart getting more or less common?

More common. 1,759 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,781 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Dysart

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,781 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D263

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dysart is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic dìseart (“hermit's cell, hermitage”), itself from Latin desertum (“desert, waste, solitary spot”).

Dysart is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,781 people named Dysart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,759.

#16,214

rank among US surnames

1,781

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #15,340)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,214	Loria	1,781	173,355
#16,219	Stennett	1,780	173,453

Who is named Dysart

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

81% of people named Dysart identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 12%
Two or more races 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dysart

Dygert

Dysart has the Soundex code D263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D263.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dysart come from?: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic dìseart (“hermit's cell, hermitage”), itself from Latin desertum (“desert, waste, solitary spot”).
How common is the surname Dysart?: 1,781 people in the United States had the surname Dysart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. It ranked 16,214th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dysart?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Dysart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Dysart?: Dysart is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Dysart getting more or less common?: More common. 1,759 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,781 in 2010, up 1.3%.