How common is the surname Bomberger?

1,586 people in the United States had the surname Bomberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,669 Americans. It ranked 17,691st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bomberger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bomberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bomberger getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,586 in 2010, down 5.0%.

The surname Bomberger

A surname, carried by 1,586 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B516

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bomberger is more common than 89.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,586 people named Bomberger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 194,669 Americans. That is down 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,670.

#17,691

rank among US surnames

1,586

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-5%

change since 2000 (was #15,973)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,682	Najjar	1,587	194,547
#17,691	Pangburn	1,586	194,669
#17,699	Orwig	1,585	194,792

Who is named Bomberger

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

96% of people named Bomberger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

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 Bomberger

Bomberger has the Soundex code B516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B516.

Questions

How common is the surname Bomberger?: 1,586 people in the United States had the surname Bomberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,669 Americans. It ranked 17,691st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bomberger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bomberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bomberger getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,586 in 2010, down 5.0%.