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    The surname Bonfield

    A Norman place surname, carried by 516 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B514

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bonfield is more common than 74.1% of them.

    Origin

    Norman origin

    English and Irish habitational surname of Norman origin, from an altered form of any of three places in France called Bonneville.

    Bonfield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 516 people named Bonfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 598,344 Americans. That is down 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 537.

    #42,094
    rank among US surnames
    516
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.9%
    change since 2000 (was #38,706)

    Who is named Bonfield

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

    92% of people named Bonfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bonfield

    Bonfield has the Soundex code B514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B514.

    Other Norman surnames

    All 128 Norman surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bonfield come from?
    English and Irish habitational surname of Norman origin, from an altered form of any of three places in France called Bonneville.
    How common is the surname Bonfield?
    516 people in the United States had the surname Bonfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 598,344 Americans. It ranked 42,094th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bonfield?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bonfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bonfield?
    Bonfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bonfield getting more or less common?
    Less common. 537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 516 in 2010, down 3.9%.