The surname Boggan
A surname, carried by 1,853 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B250
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,853 people named Boggan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,619 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,850.
#15,734
rank among US surnames
1,853
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.2%
change since 2000 (was #14,724)
Who is named Boggan
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
52% of people named Boggan identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 52%
- Black (not Hispanic) 43%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Boggan has the Soundex code B250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B250.
Questions
- How common is the surname Boggan?
- 1,853 people in the United States had the surname Boggan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,619 Americans. It ranked 15,734th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Boggan?
- In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Boggan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Boggan getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,850 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,853 in 2010, up 0.2%.