Dowd

Dowd is the 2,686th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,092 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,092
Rank: 2,686th
How common: 1 in 22,800
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhda (“descendant of Dubhda”), a byname derived from dubh (“black”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Dowd

Ann Dowd (born 1956)American actress
Tom Dowd (1925–2002)American music producer
Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007)British writer and activist
Phil Dowd (born 1963)Football referee

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

Surnames like Dowd

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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.