Dent

Dent is the 2,443rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,430 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 20,700.

By the numbers

People: 14,430
Rank: 2,443rd
How common: 1 in 20,700
Per 100,000: 4.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.6%
Black, not Hispanic 36.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dent

Taylor Dent (born 1981)American tennis player
Catherine Dent (born 1965)American actress
Phil Dent (born 1950)Australian tennis player
Charlie Dent (born 1960)American politician
Susie Dent (born 1964)English lexicographer
Edward Joseph Dent (1876–1957)British musicologist
Vernon Dent (1895–1963)American actor
Frederick B. Dent (1922–2019)American politician

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

Surnames like Dent

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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.