The surname Boelter
A surname, carried by 1,976 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B436
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,976 people named Boelter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,248 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,637.
#14,965
rank among US surnames
1,976
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+20.7%
change since 2000 (was #16,224)
Who is named Boelter
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Boelter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Boelter has the Soundex code B436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B436.
Questions
- How common is the surname Boelter?
- 1,976 people in the United States had the surname Boelter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,248 Americans. It ranked 14,965th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Boelter?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Boelter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Boelter getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,637 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,976 in 2010, up 21%.