How common is the surname Bohr?

1,779 people in the United States had the surname Bohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,550 Americans. It ranked 16,228th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bohr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bohr getting more or less common?

More common. 1,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,779 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Bohr

A German surname, carried by 1,779 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bohr is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

German origin

German: from a short form of a personal name of Slavic origin (Boris), or from a reduced form of the medieval personal name Liborius, patron saint of the city of Paderborn. Danish and Swedish: from German Baar, Bahr, recorded in Denmark since the 18th century.

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 1,779 people named Bohr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,550 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,735.

#16,228

rank among US surnames

1,779

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #15,490)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,219	Stennett	1,780	173,453
#16,228	Thiede	1,779	173,550

Who is named Bohr

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

95% of people named Bohr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bohr

Bohr has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bohr come from?: German: from a short form of a personal name of Slavic origin (Boris), or from a reduced form of the medieval personal name Liborius, patron saint of the city of Paderborn. Danish and Swedish: from German Baar, Bahr, recorded in Denmark since the 18th century.
How common is the surname Bohr?: 1,779 people in the United States had the surname Bohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,550 Americans. It ranked 16,228th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bohr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bohr getting more or less common?: More common. 1,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,779 in 2010, up 2.5%.