Deal

19,638 people in the United States were counted with the surname Deal in the 2020 census, making it the 1,785th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,200.

By the numbers

People: 19,638
Rank: 1,785th
How common: 1 in 15,200
Per 100,000: 6.6

Where the name comes from

From Old English dæl (“valley”), corresponding to modern dale.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Deal

Kim Deal (born 1961)American singer-songwriter; alternative rock musician
Nathan Deal (born 1942)82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019
Lance Deal (born 1961)American hammer thrower
Kelley Deal (born 1961)American musician

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

Surnames like Deal

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.