Duke

Duke is the 1,036th most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,324 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,969.

By the numbers

People: 33,324
Rank: 1,036th
How common: 1 in 8,969
Per 100,000: 11.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Duke

Patty Duke (1946–2016)American actress
Mitchell Duke (born 1991)Australian association football player
Charles Duke (born 1935)American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut
David Duke (born 1950)American white nationalist and politician
Winston Duke (born 1986)Tobagonian actor
James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925)American businessman
George Duke (1946–2013)American musician
Clark Duke (born 1985)American actor

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

Surnames like Duke

Dukes

Also a first name

Duke has been given to 11,595 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2018. 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.