Downer

5,078 people in the United States were counted with the surname Downer in the 2020 census, making it the 6,438th most common in the country. That is about one person in 58,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,078
Rank: 6,438th
How common: 1 in 58,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.8%
Black, not Hispanic 28.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Downer

Alexander Downer (born 1951)Australian politician

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

Surnames like Downer

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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.