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    The surname Boehm

    A German surname, carried by 10,730 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B500

    Boehm: #3,340 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Boehm #3,340, 10,730 people Boehm: #3,340 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Boehm #3,340, 10,730 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boehm is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    From German Böhm.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,730 people named Boehm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 28,774 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 10,717.

    #3,340
    rank among US surnames
    10,730
    people in 2010
    3.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #3,103)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,331Salcido10,77628,651
    #3,332Wilde10,76628,678
    #3,333Somers10,76228,688
    #3,334Delagarza10,75928,696
    #3,335Plunkett10,75828,699
    #3,336McCloskey10,75628,704
    #3,337Mendiola10,75228,715

    Who is named Boehm

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

    96% of people named Boehm identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Boehms

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Theobald Boehm
      Bavarian flautist and tinkerer (1794-1881)
    • Barry Boehm
      American software engineer (1935–2022)
    • Sydney Boehm
      American screenwriter (1908-1990)

    Notable Boehms come mostly from the United States (2) and Kingdom of Bavaria (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Boehm

    Boehm has the Soundex code B500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B500.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Boehm come from?
    From German Böhm.
    How common is the surname Boehm?
    10,730 people in the United States had the surname Boehm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,774 Americans. It ranked 3,340th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boehm?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Boehm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Boehm?
    Theobald Boehm, Bavarian flautist and tinkerer (1794-1881), followed by Barry Boehm.
    Where is the surname Boehm most common?
    Wikidata records people named Boehm in the United States and Kingdom of Bavaria.
    Is the surname Boehm getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,730 in 2010, up 0.1%.