Explore the Family Name Drummonds

The meaning of Drummonds

Scottish: variant of Drummond, with post-medieval excrescent -s. In Britain this surname is found mainly in County Durham.

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How common is the last name Drummonds in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Drummonds has slightly decreased between 2000 and 2010. In the year 2000, Drummonds was the 33,933rd most common surname in the United States, with a count of 633 instances per 100,000 people. A decade later, its rank had slipped to 35,764th, and the count had marginally dropped to 628 instances per 100,000 individuals. This represents a change of -5.4% in rank and -0.79% in count.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#33,933	#35,764	-5.4%
Count	633	628	-0.79%
Proportion per 100k	0.23	0.21	-8.7%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Drummonds

Regarding the ethnic identity associated with the surname Drummonds, data from the Decennial U.S. Census reveals some changes over this same ten-year period. In 2000, 75.99% of those with the surname identified as white, but this number decreased to 72.13% by 2010. Conversely, the percentage identifying as Black increased from 20.06% to 22.13%. The proportion of those identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native also saw a significant increase, rising from 1.42% to 2.07%. Notably, there were no individuals with the surname Drummonds who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander in either 2000 or 2010. For the first time in 2010, a small percentage (2.07%) identified as Hispanic. Furthermore, the data for those who identified with two or more races was suppressed in 2010 for privacy reasons.

	2000	2010	Change
White	75.99%	72.13%	-5.08%
Black	20.06%	22.13%	10.32%
Hispanic	0%	2.07%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	1.42%	2.07%	45.77%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	1.58%	0%	0%