Dunham

Dunham is the 1,621st most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,528 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,900.

By the numbers

People: 21,528
Rank: 1,621st
How common: 1 in 13,900
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from any of various places in England, from Old English dūn (“hill”) + hām (“homestead”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Black, not Hispanic 9.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Dunham

Lena Dunham (born 1986)American writer, director, actress, and producer
Jeff Dunham (born 1962)American ventriloquist and comedian
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006)American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)
Stanley Ann Dunham (1942–1995)American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
Stephen Dunham (1964–2012)American actor
Mike Dunham (born 1972)American ice hockey goaltender
Duwayne Dunham (born 1952)American film director and editor

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

Surnames like Dunham

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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.