How common is the surname Bogue?

3,521 people in the United States had the surname Bogue in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. It ranked 9,245th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bogue?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bogue identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Bogue?

Bogue is /boːɡ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Bogue getting more or less common?

More common. 3,496 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,521 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Bogue

A surname, carried by 3,521 people in the United States.

Pronounced /boːɡ/ 1 syllable Soundex B200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bogue is more common than 94.3% of them.

Origin

In reference to the Chinese strait, a corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,521 people named Bogue in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,496.

#9,245

rank among US surnames

3,521

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #8,660)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,236	Trader	3,525	87,587
#9,237	Bennet	3,523	87,637
#9,241	Kost	3,522	87,662
#9,245	Kinsman	3,521	87,687
#9,251	Cui	3,520	87,712
#9,253	Talton	3,519	87,737

Who is named Bogue

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

91% of people named Bogue identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bogue

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

Questions

Where does the surname Bogue come from?: In reference to the Chinese strait, a corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).
How common is the surname Bogue?: 3,521 people in the United States had the surname Bogue in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. It ranked 9,245th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bogue?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bogue identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Bogue?: Bogue is /boːɡ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Bogue getting more or less common?: More common. 3,496 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,521 in 2010, up 0.7%.