The surname Bergquist
A Swedish surname, carried by 3,912 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B622
Origin
Swedish origin
Borrowed from Swedish Bergqvist.
One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,912 people named Bergquist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 78,923 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,903.
Who is named Bergquist
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Bergquist identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Bergquist has the Soundex code B622, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B622.
Other Swedish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Bergquist come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Bergqvist.
- How common is the surname Bergquist?
- 3,912 people in the United States had the surname Bergquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,923 Americans. It ranked 8,443rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bergquist?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bergquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Bergquist getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,903 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,912 in 2010, up 0.2%.