Last Name DENT

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Dent, a township in the parish of Sedbergh, West Riding Yorks.

Origin	English, Jewish, Greek, Irish, Falkland, Belgian, South african

Rank	2,354 (2000 US census)	2,200 (1990 US census)

Count	14,082 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

59.27%, or 8346 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
36.91%, or 5198 total occurrences, as black,
0.37%, or 52 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.45%, or 63 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.56%, or 220 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 203 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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