Dodge

21,224 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dodge in the 2020 census, making it the 1,650th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,100.

By the numbers

People: 21,224
Rank: 1,650th
How common: 1 in 14,100
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Middle English diminutive form of Roger.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Dodge

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905)American children's writer
Horace Elgin Dodge (1868–1920)American businessman
John Francis Dodge (1864–1920)American businessman
William Dodge (1925–1987)bobsledder
Grenville M. Dodge (1831–1916)Union Army general
Henry Dodge (1782–1867)American politician and general
Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962)American patron of the arts

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

Surnames like Dodge

Also a first name

Dodge has been given to 681 American babies as a first name since 1937, peaking in 2010. 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.