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    The surname Boge

    A Norwegian place surname, carried by 548 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boge is more common than 75.3% of them.

    Origin

    Norwegian origin

    Borrowed from Norwegian Boge, a topographic or habitational surname from Old Norse bugr (“hook; bay, inlet”).

    Boge is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 31 Norwegian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 548 people named Boge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 563,404 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 552.

    #40,016
    rank among US surnames
    548
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #37,835)

    Who is named Boge

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

    93% of people named Boge identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Boge

    Boge has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Other Norwegian surnames

    All 31 Norwegian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Boge come from?
    Borrowed from Norwegian Boge, a topographic or habitational surname from Old Norse bugr (“hook; bay, inlet”).
    How common is the surname Boge?
    548 people in the United States had the surname Boge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 563,404 Americans. It ranked 40,016th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boge?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Boge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Boge?
    Boge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Boge getting more or less common?
    Less common. 552 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 548 in 2010, down 0.7%.