Dillingham

Dillingham is the 7,141st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,507 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,507
Rank: 7,141st
How common: 1 in 66,300
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

From Dullingham in East Cambridgeshire, dating back to Old English; from the personal name *Dulla + -ing + ham. The first element may be related to dæl (“divide, separate, pay over”), referring to a dealer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 12.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Dillingham

Robert Dillingham (born 2005)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Dillingham

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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.