Last Name DIMES

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Meaning The son of Diamond, from nickname Dime. Corroborative evidence is favour of this view is found in the fact that in the county of York, where Diamond or Dymond was a popular name, we find the patronymic Dimeson.
Origin English, Romanian

Rank 78,326 (2000 US census) 85,898 (1990 US census)
Count 227 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 33.92%, or 77 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 44.93%, or 102 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 6.61%, or 15 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 11.89%, or 27 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


English surnames

 English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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)...

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