Denmark

3,197 people in the United States were counted with the surname Denmark in the 2020 census, making it the 9,692nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 93,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,197
Rank: 9,692nd
How common: 1 in 93,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Denemarke, Denmarke, from Old English Denemearc.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.0%
Black, not Hispanic 33.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Denmark

Christian X of Denmark (1870–1947)King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847–1928)Empress consort of Russia
Queen Mary of Denmark (born 1972)Queen consort of Denmark since 2024
Sweyn III of Denmark (1125–1157)King of Denmark
Olaf I of Denmark (1050–1095)King of Denmark
Eric V of Denmark (1249–1286)King of Denmark
Harald III of Denmark (1041–1080)11th-century King of Denmark
Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872–1938)Prince of Greece and Denmark

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

Surnames like Denmark

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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.