Dart

At the 2020 census, 3,495 Americans bore the surname Dart — 8,984th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 85,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,495
Rank: 8,984th
How common: 1 in 85,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of darts, from Middle English dart.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Dart

Raymond Dart (1893–1988)Australian anatomist and anthropologist
Harriet Dart (born 1996)British tennis player
Robert Thurston Dart (1921–1971)British musicologist

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

Surnames like Dart

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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.