How common is the surname Blomquist?

3,445 people in the United States had the surname Blomquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. It ranked 9,444th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blomquist?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blomquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blomquist getting more or less common?

More common. 3,407 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,445 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Blomquist

A Swedish surname, carried by 3,445 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blomquist is more common than 94.2% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

Borrowed from Swedish Blomqvist.

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 3,445 people named Blomquist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,407.

#9,444

rank among US surnames

3,445

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,844)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,437	Bethune	3,447	89,569
#9,440	Wehner	3,446	89,595
#9,444	Durso	3,445	89,621
#9,446	McGruder	3,444	89,647
#9,449	Subramanian	3,443	89,673
#9,451	Pick	3,442	89,699

Who is named Blomquist

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Blomquist identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blomquist

Bloomquist

Blomquist has the Soundex code B452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B452.

Other Swedish surnames

All 133 Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Blomquist come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Blomqvist.
How common is the surname Blomquist?: 3,445 people in the United States had the surname Blomquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 89,621 Americans. It ranked 9,444th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blomquist?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blomquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blomquist getting more or less common?: More common. 3,407 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,445 in 2010, up 1.1%.