Dubois

22,571 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dubois in the 2020 census, making it the 1,554th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,571
Rank: 1,554th
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin French

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Dubois

Eugène Dubois (1858–1940)Dutch paleoanthropologist
Léo Dubois (born 1994)French footballer
Marie Dubois (1937–2014)French actress
Jean-Paul Dubois (born 1950)French writer
Guillaume Dubois (1656–1723)French cardinal and politician
Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)French composer and Organist
Stéphanie Dubois (born 1986)Canadian tennis player
Ja'Net DuBois (1932–2020)American actress

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

Surnames like Dubois

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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.