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    The surname Bond

    An occupational surname, carried by 50,610 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B530 Also a first name

    Bond: #679 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Bond #679, 50,610 people Bond: #679 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Bond #679, 50,610 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bond is more common than 99.6% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English occupational surname, from the noun bond, bondman, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi (“peasant, farmer”). Also as a variant of Band. * As a Swedish surname, variant of Bonde. * As a Ukrainian surname, shortened from Bondarenko. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Bont, from bont (“speckled, motley”), compare Bonte.

    Bond is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 50,610 people named Bond in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 6,100 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 50,980.

    #679
    rank among US surnames
    50,610
    people in 2010
    17
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #603)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #670Cisneros50,9206,063
    #671Harrell50,8376,073
    #672Shields50,8326,074
    #673Rubio50,7886,079
    #674Huffman50,7866,079
    #676Boyer50,7426,085
    #677Garrison50,6866,091

    Who is named Bond

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

    76% of people named Bond identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bond

    Bond has the Soundex code B530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B530.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bond come from?
    * As an English occupational surname, from the noun bond, bondman, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi (“peasant, farmer”). Also as a variant of Band. * As a Swedish surname, variant of Bonde. * As a Ukrainian surname, shortened from Bondarenko. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Bont, from bont…
    How common is the surname Bond?
    50,610 people in the United States had the surname Bond in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,100 Americans. It ranked 679th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bond?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Bond identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bond?
    Bond is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Bond getting more or less common?
    Less common. 50,980 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 50,610 in 2010, down 0.7%.
    Is Bond also a first name?
    Yes. Bond is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.