The surname Boatwright
An occupational surname, carried by 7,379 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B362
Origin
From boatwright.
Boatwright is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,379 people named Boatwright in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,841 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,063.
Who is named Boatwright
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
62% of people named Boatwright identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 62%
- Black (not Hispanic) 32%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Boatwright
Boatwright has the Soundex code B362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B362.
Questions
- Where does the surname Boatwright come from?
- From boatwright.
- How common is the surname Boatwright?
- 7,379 people in the United States had the surname Boatwright in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,841 Americans. It ranked 4,790th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Boatwright?
- In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Boatwright identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Boatwright?
- Boatwright is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Boatwright getting more or less common?
- More common. 7,063 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,379 in 2010, up 4.5%.