Downes

Downes is the 5,896th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,633 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,633
Rank: 5,896th
How common: 1 in 53,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Downes

Geoff Downes (born 1952)English keyboardist
Kevin Downes (born 1972)American actor, writer, producer and director
Robin Atkin Downes (born 1976)British actor
Lorraine Downes (born 1964)New Zealand beauty pageant contestant
Flynn Downes (born 1999)English association football player

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

Surnames like Downes

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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.