Dye

27,118 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dye in the 2020 census, making it the 1,266th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,000.

By the numbers

People: 27,118
Rank: 1,266th
How common: 1 in 11,000
Per 100,000: 9.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dye

Dale Dye (born 1944)American actor, presenter, and businessman
John Dye (1963–2011)American film and television actor
Jeff Dye (born 1983)American stand-up comedian

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

Surnames like Dye

Dyer
Dyess

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.