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    The surname Bonneau

    A French surname, carried by 2,147 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B500

    Bonneau: #14,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bonneau #14,030, 2,147 people Bonneau: #14,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bonneau #14,030, 2,147 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bonneau is more common than 91.4% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from French.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,147 people named Bonneau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 143,803 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,078.

    #14,030
    rank among US surnames
    2,147
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #13,434)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,025Blackmer2,148143,736
    #14,030Dziedzic2,147143,803
    #14,038Sang2,146143,870

    Who is named Bonneau

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

    81% of people named Bonneau identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • 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 Bonneau

    Bonneau has the Soundex code B500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B500.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bonneau come from?
    Bonneau is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Bonneau?
    2,147 people in the United States had the surname Bonneau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 143,803 Americans. It ranked 14,030th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bonneau?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Bonneau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bonneau getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,078 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,147 in 2010, up 3.3%.