Surname Spotlight: Demuth

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Demuth coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

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Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Demuth. Wikidata records Demuth as a German family name.

No reliable dictionary entry explains Demuth, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Demuth line back. Demuth ranked 11,843 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,643 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 396 babies born in France were registered as Demuth, with the most births in 1931–1940.

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