Dawes

Dawes is the 5,413th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,221 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,221
Rank: 5,413th
How common: 1 in 48,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.7%
Black, not Hispanic 16.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dawes

Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951)vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868)British astronomer
Dominique Dawes (born 1976)American artistic gymnast, actress, and health activist
Eva Dawes (1912–2009)athletics competitor
Nigel Dawes (born 1985)Canadian ice hockey player
Chris Dawes (born 1974)Jamaican footballer
Henry Laurens Dawes (1816–1903)American politician

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

Surnames like Dawes

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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.