Dorsey

41,699 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dorsey in the 2020 census, making it the 804th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,168.

By the numbers

People: 41,699
Rank: 804th
How common: 1 in 7,168
Per 100,000: 14.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

Habitational surname from Norman de (“of”) + Orsay, a town in France.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 50.2%
White, not Hispanic 40.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dorsey

Jack Dorsey (born 1976)American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956)American big band leader and musician
Jimmy Dorsey (1904–1957)American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
Tyler Dorsey (born 1996)American–Greek basketball player
Joey Dorsey (born 1983)American basketball player
Kerris Dorsey (born 1998)American actress
Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993)American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music
Lee Dorsey (1926–1986)American pop/R&B singer

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

Surnames like Dorsey

Also a first name

Dorsey has been given to 6,228 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. 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.