The Dare surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,472 people carried this name — #9,368 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 84,700 people counted. That is up 4% from 3,338 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Dare surname
English surname, spelling variant of Dear.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dare» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 251 people named Dare.
22 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Finistère.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Dare in American newspapers,
1882–1895.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,701,931 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Dare,
with a public archive behind them.
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Virginia Dare 1587–1700 -
Virginia Dare 1587–1600
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Virginia Dare 1587–
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Elizabeth Eaton d. 1823
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John Marmaduke Grafton-Dare d. 1810
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Florence Gertrude Dare d. 1938
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dare.
When the index is not enough
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