Dyer

At the 2020 census, 46,255 Americans bore the surname Dyer — 731st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,462.

By the numbers

People: 46,255
Rank: 731st
How common: 1 in 6,462
Per 100,000: 15.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English surname, from dyer (“one who dyes”). Compare Dexter.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.0%
Black, not Hispanic 11.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dyer

Natalia Dyer (born 1995)American actress
Kieron Dyer (born 1978)English footballer
Mary Dyer (1611–1660)Quaker martyr
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015)American writer
Nathan Dyer (born 1987)English association football player
Reginald Dyer (1864–1927)British Indian Army general
Danny Malcom Dyer (born 1977)English actor
Hector Dyer (1910–1990)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Dyer

Dye
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.