Dahl

Dahl is the 1,657th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,156 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,100.

By the numbers

People: 21,156
Rank: 1,657th
How common: 1 in 14,100
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

From Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Dahl.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916–1990)British writer and poet
Robert A. Dahl (1915–2014)American political scientist
Ole-Johan Dahl (1931–2002)Norwegian computer scientist
Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857)Norwegian painter
Arlene Dahl (1925–2021)American actress
Anders Dahl (1751–1789)Swedish botanist
Kristian Thulesen Dahl (born 1969)Danish politician
Sophie Dahl (born 1977)English author, cook, former model

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

Surnames like Dahl

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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.