Dwyer

26,585 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dwyer in the 2020 census, making it the 1,296th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,200.

By the numbers

People: 26,585
Rank: 1,296th
How common: 1 in 11,200
Per 100,000: 8.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duibhidhir (“descendant of Duibhuidhir”), a personal name composed of the elements dubh (“black, dark”) + odhar (“sallow, tawny”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Dwyer

R. Budd Dwyer (1939–1987)American politician
Jamie Dwyer (born 1979)Australian field hockey player
Dom Dwyer (born 1990)English-American footballer
Rasheed Dwyer (born 1989)Jamaican sprinter
Conor Dwyer (born 1989)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
Patrick Dwyer (born 1977)Australian sprinter
Hilary Dwyer (1945–2020)British actress
Alice Dwyer (born 1988)German actress

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

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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.