How common is the surname Bolyard?

3,235 people in the United States had the surname Bolyard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,439 Americans. It ranked 9,969th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bolyard?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Bolyard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bolyard getting more or less common?

More common. 3,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,235 in 2010, up 4.2%.

The surname Bolyard

A surname, carried by 3,235 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B463

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bolyard is more common than 93.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,235 people named Bolyard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,439 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,104.

#9,969

rank among US surnames

3,235

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,608)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,964	Throckmorton	3,238	95,351
#9,966	Furlow	3,237	95,380
#9,968	Warr	3,236	95,410
#9,969	Bolyard	3,235	95,439
#9,976	Leitch	3,234	95,469

Who is named Bolyard

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

97% of people named Bolyard identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

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 Bolyard

Bolyard has the Soundex code B463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B463.

Questions

How common is the surname Bolyard?: 3,235 people in the United States had the surname Bolyard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,439 Americans. It ranked 9,969th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bolyard?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Bolyard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bolyard getting more or less common?: More common. 3,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,235 in 2010, up 4.2%.