Popularity of the last name by country
Argentina
- Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) (127)
- Santa Fe (19)
- Tucumán (4)
- Santiago del Estero (2)
- San Luis (2)
All countries
- France (1,286,760)
- Canada (34,376)
- United States (16,165)
- Switzerland (6,764)
- Netherlands (6,138)
- Algeria (3,442)
- United Kingdom (2,112)
- Martinique (1,725)
- Germany (1,536)
- Italy (1,493)
- Belgium (1,487)
- Spain (1,362)
- Indonesia (671)
- New Zealand (614)
- Unknown country (605)
- Haiti (522)
- Tunisia (477)
- Australia (449)
- Ireland (434)
- Morocco (418)
- Guadeloupe (277)
- New Caledonia (274)
- Russian Federation (265)
- Turkey (214)
- Viet Nam (204)
- Argentina (192)
- Réunion (175)
- Mexico (140)
- India (138)
- Luxembourg (138)
- Egypt (128)
- Poland (108)
- Madagascar (93)
- Austria (83)
- Czech republic (78)
- Chile (77)
- Sweden (77)
- Monaco (64)
- Cuba (62)
- Brazil (60)
Origine of last name
DUMAS : French: topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village from Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Mas">Mas</a> 1); or a habitational name for someone from Le Mas the name of several places mainly in the southern part of France named with the same word. It is formed with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’. This surname is also common in Haiti. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Demos">Demos</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Demoss">Demoss</a>.
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