Dunbar

Dunbar is the 1,363rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 25,377 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,377
Rank: 1,363rd
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Historically Dynbaer. From xcb *dyn (“fort”) + *barr (“hill-crest, summit, top”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.1%
Black, not Hispanic 29.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Dunbar

Rockmond Dunbar (born 1973)American actor
Bonnie J. Dunbar (born 1949)American engineer and astronaut
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935)American writer, activist
Aynsley Dunbar (born 1946)British musician
Robin Dunbar (born 1947)British evolutionary psychologist
William Dunbar (1460–1520)medieval Scottish poet and civil servant
Edward Dunbar (born 1996)Irish cyclist

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

Surnames like Dunbar

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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.