The Due surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,509 people carried this name — #18,354 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 196,100 people counted. That is down 10% from 1,686 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 98 people named Due.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
380 people named Due are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Due in American newspapers,
1886.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 7,368,000 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Due,
with a public archive behind them.
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Manderup Due 1668–1710 · military personnel -
Frederik Due 1796–1873 · politician -
Alethe Due 1812–1887 · composer -
Paul Due 1835–1919 · architect -
Alfhild Due 1863–1951 · painter -
Jens Due d. 1420 · Steward of the Realm
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Due.
- Ducy 110 · U.S. census
- Duda 6,034 · U.S. census
- Dudek 5,519 · U.S. census
- Dudoit 427 · U.S. census
- Dudziak 468 · U.S. census
- Dudzinski 910 · U.S. census
- Duet 1,413 · U.S. census
- Duez 162 · U.S. census
- Dufer 115 · U.S. census
- Duffey 6,251 · U.S. census
- Duffner 498 · U.S. census
- Duffy 38,835 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Due is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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