Desmond

At the 2020 census, 7,048 Americans bore the surname Desmond — 4,859th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,400.

By the numbers

People: 7,048
Rank: 4,859th
How common: 1 in 42,400
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Deasmhumhnaigh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Desmond

Paul Desmond (1924–1977)American jazz musician
Olga Desmond (1890–1964)German actress
Viola Desmond (1914–1965)Canadian activist
William Desmond (1878–1949)American actor
Lucy Desmond (1899–1992)British gymnast

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

Surnames like Desmond

Also a first name

Desmond has been given to 40,264 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

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.