Last Name DEMPSEY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	An Irish surname that looks like an English surname.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	1,215 (2000 US census)	1,253 (1990 US census)

Count	26,403 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.62%, or 23926 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
5.4%, or 1426 total occurrences, as black,
0.44%, or 116 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.79%, or 209 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.24%, or 327 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.51%, or 399 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...