Dull

At the 2020 census, 4,474 Americans bore the surname Dull — 7,202nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 66,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,474
Rank: 7,202nd
How common: 1 in 66,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, from dialectal tull (“stout, corpulent”) (see the adjective doll), or a variant of Thiel. See Duell.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Dull

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.