Dabney

At the 2020 census, 6,979 Americans bore the surname Dabney — 4,901st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,979
Rank: 4,901st
How common: 1 in 42,800
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

Habitational surname of Norman origin, from de (“of”) and the toponym Aubigny or Aubigné, from Medieval Latin Albiniacus, from the Roman gens, Latin Albinius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dabney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 54.0%
White, not Hispanic 36.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Dabney

Ted Dabney (1937–2018)American electronic engineer, the co-founder of Atari, Inc.

People named Dabney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dabney

Also a first name

Dabney has been given to 623 American babies as a first name since 1897, peaking in 1973. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.