Doane

At the 2020 census, 5,962 Americans bore the surname Doane — 5,621st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 50,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,962
Rank: 5,621st
How common: 1 in 50,100
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubháin (“descendant of Dubhán”), a diminutive of dubh (“black”), or a reduced Anglicized form of Ó Damháin (“descendant of Damhán”), from a diminutive of damh (“ox, stag”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Doane

Doan
Doak

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.