How rare is the last name Dowd?

13,092 people in the United States have the last name Dowd, about 1 in 22,831. It ranks #2,686 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

DOWD

#2,686

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,092
About
1 in 22,831
This common or more
51.3%
Who bears it

Of the 13,092 people with the last name Dowd, 85.7% reported their origin as White, 5.6% as Black and 3.7% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Dowd

#2,684 Tharp · 13,097#2,685 Gavin · 13,096#2,687 Segovia · 13,087#2,688 Hitchcock · 13,086

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dowd, most common first.

#1,175 Dodd · 29,440#2,736 Dowdy · 12,818#10,427 Doud · 2,942#56,803 Dowda · 388#67,004 Dood · 318

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