Last Name DRAPER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Occupational: The draper, a dealer in cloth. One who sells cloths.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Zimbabwean

Rank	1,397 (2000 US census)	1,365 (1990 US census)

Count	23,242 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

81.06%, or 18840 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
13.67%, or 3177 total occurrences, as black,
0.45%, or 105 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.87%, or 435 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.34%, or 311 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.62%, or 377 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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.

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

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)...