How common is the surname Bolte?

2,629 people in the United States had the surname Bolte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,438 Americans. It ranked 11,907th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bolte?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bolte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bolte getting more or less common?

More common. 2,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,629 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Bolte

A surname, carried by 2,629 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B430

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bolte is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,629 people named Bolte in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,438 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,318.

#11,907

rank among US surnames

2,629

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+13.4%

change since 2000 (was #12,302)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,899	Hosmer	2,631	117,349
#11,904	Bluhm	2,630	117,394
#11,907	Beauvais	2,629	117,438
#11,914	Cowgill	2,628	117,483

Who is named Bolte

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

94% of people named Bolte identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bolte

Bolte has the Soundex code B430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B430.

Questions

How common is the surname Bolte?: 2,629 people in the United States had the surname Bolte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,438 Americans. It ranked 11,907th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bolte?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bolte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bolte getting more or less common?: More common. 2,318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,629 in 2010, up 13%.