The Dunlop surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,234 people carried this name — #7,819 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 69,400 people counted. That is up 2% from 4,164 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Dunlop surname

Of Scottish origin, all senses ultimately from the village.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dunlop» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Dunlop’.

His entry covers Dunlop and Dunlap.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 258 · public domain.

In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890

Ireland registered 35 births for the Dunlop name in 1890.

Most were registered in Ulster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 1,600 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “21 in Antrim.”

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born, 1890

Ulster 33
Leinster 2

Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

22 people named Dunlop live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Geneva 10
Schwyz 5
Vaud 4
Fribourg 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

34 people named Dunlop is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 34

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).

In Scotland, 1880s

Dunlop was 30 in every 10,000 names in Scotland.

That is about 1 in 333. Its home there, in Guppy’s words: “Ayrshire.” He counted the more than 20,000 names in Halliburton’s County Directory of Scotland, taking Scotland as a whole, and listed only the names that reached 10 in every 10,000.

H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), appendix: alphabetical list of the most frequent Scottish names, p. 588 — public domain · names in Halliburton’s County Directory of Scotland, per 10,000 for the whole country.

In Scotland’s registers today

Dunlop was recorded 104 times in Scotland’s registers of births, marriages and deaths in 2025.

That made it the 242nd most common name in those registers, shared with others on the same count. In 1975, the first year of the series, the count was 168. Each birth counts the child’s surname, each marriage both partners’ and each death the surname of the person who died — a yearly count of registrations, not of the people who live in Scotland.

National Records of Scotland, «Most Common Surnames, 2025» (published 26 May 2026): every surname recorded 10 or more times in the 2025 registers, and the series from 1975 · different spellings are counted separately — © Crown copyright 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

In print

Dunlop in American newspapers,
1892–1919.

Newspaper page from The Birmingham Age-herald carrying the name Dunlop
The Birmingham Age-herald 1905-12-06
Newspaper page from The Morgan City Daily Review carrying the name Dunlop
The Morgan City Daily Review 1919-02-07
Newspaper page from The Evening World carrying the name Dunlop
The Evening World 1892-06-29

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,542 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Dunlop in Australian newspapers,
1820s–2010s.

72,308 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Dunlop. The most, 14,330, date from the 1930s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Queensland, at 1.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 30,643
Queensland 17,620
Victoria 16,907
Western Australia 3,344
South Australia 1,937
Tasmania 1,306
ACT (Canberra) 372
Northern Territory 32

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Dunlop.

Who carried it

People named Dunlop,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Frances Anne Walker Dunlop
    Frances Anne Walker Dunlop 1730–1815 · writer
  • John Dunlop
    John Dunlop 1755–1820 · writer
  • Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch
    Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch 1766–1840
  • John Dunlop of Gairbraid
    John Dunlop of Gairbraid 1789–1868 · activist
  • William "Tiger" Dunlop
    William "Tiger" Dunlop 1792–1848 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 281 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Dunlop,
in the records of 8 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States1,509 records

1,509 records of the Dunlop name in the United States
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 589
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 294
  • Other U.S. records 626
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Herbert H. Dunlop

    Born 1904 in Montana. Enlisted 1942 at Portland, Oregon; auto mechanic from Multnomah County, Oregon. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1982, buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Thomas A. Dunlop

    Born 1915 in United Kingdom. Enlisted 1941 at New York City; bank clerk from Kings County, New York. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1975, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Hiram Dunlop

    Arrived at New York in 1891 aboard the Ems from Bremen and Southampton, aged 51; merchant. From Fuerth, Germany; bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 1,509 records for Dunlop in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia2,029 records

2,029 records of the Dunlop name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 1,128
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 347
  • Other Australian records 554
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Francis Dunlop

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the London, sailing from Kingston in 1850. Native of Armagh. Applied for permission to marry in Van Diemen's Land in 1852. Married 1852 in Hamilton, Tasmania, aged 27.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Eric Francis Dunlop

    Born 1910 in John Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania. Died 1936 in Tasmania, aged 25.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Morton John Dunlop

    Born 1882 in New Norfolk, Tasmania. Married 1918 in Hobart, Tasmania, aged 35.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 2,029 records for Dunlop in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · ACT Government, Transport Canberra and City Services (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

Canada601 records

601 records of the Dunlop name in Canada
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 417
  • Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 56
  • Other Canadian records 128
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Henry Dunlop

    Came to Ontario in 1872 aboard the Scan, landing at Quebec, bound for London, Ontario; Irish.

    Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Samuel James Blair Dunlop

    Buried in 1976 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 90.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record George Dunlop

    Died 1938 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 601 records for Dunlop in Canada.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. · Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. · Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · City of Niagara Falls. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Niagara Falls. · Contains information provided by the City of Waterloo under licence. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Netherlands351 records

351 records of the Dunlop name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 167
  • Dutch population registers 158
  • Dutch church registers before 1811 26
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Johanna Christina Dunlop

    Married in 1880 in Arnhem. Died 1942 in Zeist, aged 79.

    Open Archives, Gelders Archief (CC BY 4.0); Open Archives, Het Utrechts Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record David Dunlop

    Married in 1823 in Rotterdam. Died 1866 in Rotterdam, aged 68.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Caroline Henriette Pauline Dunlop

    Born 1880 in 's-Gravenhage. Died 1961 in 's-Gravenhage, aged 80.

    Open Archives, Haags Gemeentearchief (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 351 records for Dunlop in the Netherlands.

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

New Zealand84 records

84 records of the Dunlop name in New Zealand
  • Christchurch City cemetery records 57
  • Thames-Coromandel District cemetery records 20
  • Other New Zealand records 7
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record David Thomas Dunlop

    Buried in 1948 at Shortland Cemetery, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, aged 65.

    Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Mary Alexander Dunlop

    Died 1961, aged 82; buried at Addington Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury.

    Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Ronald James Dunlop

    Died 1976; buried at Rangiora Lawn Cemetery, Canterbury.

    Waimakariri District Council (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 84 records for Dunlop in New Zealand.

Counts: Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0) · Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Waimakariri District Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

United Kingdom76 records

76 records of the Dunlop name in the United Kingdom
  • Stirling Council burial records 32
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 30
  • Scottish rolls of honour, First World War 14
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record William Dunlop

    Buried in 1969 at St Thomas Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland, aged 57.

    Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
  2. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record George Dunlop

    Born 1888. Died 1918. Named in the George Heriot's School roll of honour, 1914-1919.

    National Library of Scotland, Rolls of Honour (public domain)
  3. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record James Dunlop

    Died 1972, aged 77; buried at Kippen Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland.

    Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Showing 3 of 76 records for Dunlop in the United Kingdom.

Counts: Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · National Library of Scotland, Rolls of Honour (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0); C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

France5 records

5 records of the Dunlop name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Jeanie Dunlop

    Born 1947 in the United Kingdom; died 1990 in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Hugh Boyd Dunlop

    Born 1937 in the United Kingdom; died 1991 in Vieux-Château (Côte-d'Or).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Showing 2 of 5 records for Dunlop in France.

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

Ireland1 record

1 record of the Dunlop name in Ireland County Galway graveyard records
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Mary Dunlop Walsh Dunlop

    Died 1965, aged 42; buried at Clontuskert - St Matthews (CoI), Co. Galway.

    Galway County Council (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Galway County Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

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