Dumas

16,780 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dumas in the 2020 census, making it the 2,094th most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,800.

By the numbers

People: 16,780
Rank: 2,094th
How common: 1 in 17,800
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

Origin French

meaning "from the farmstead", especially one in the south of France.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 51.9%
Black, not Hispanic 37.2%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)French writer and dramatist
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895)French writer and dramatist
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884)French chemist
Marlene Dumas (born 1953)South African painter and draftsperson
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806)French general
Roland Dumas (1922–2024)French lawyer and politician
Charles Dumas (1937–2004)American high jumper
Roger Dumas (1932–2016)French actor

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

Surnames like Dumas

Dumont

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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.