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Desmarais

Desmarais is the 7,987th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,978 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,100.

By the numbers

People
3,978
Rank
7,987th
How common
1 in 75,100
Per 100,000
1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Borrowed from French Desmarais.

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

Who bears the name

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

Surnames like Desmarais

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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.