Given name & surname
Dumas
Dumas is a surname from French. It is used in English, French, and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dumas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1912
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 137 as a first name in 2020; 16,780 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dumas’s family of names
In Czech usage, Dumas as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Дюма.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dumas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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