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    The surname Booher

    A surname, carried by 6,900 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B600

    Booher: #5,075 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Booher #5,075, 6,900 people Booher: #5,075 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Booher #5,075, 6,900 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Booher is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,900 people named Booher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,746 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,436.

    #5,075
    rank among US surnames
    6,900
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #4,998)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,066Verduzco6,92344,597
    #5,067Munro6,91844,629
    #5,068Rubino6,91744,636
    #5,070Alexis6,91544,649
    #5,072Michalski6,91444,655
    #5,073Garduno6,91244,668
    #5,074Trombley6,90844,694

    Who is named Booher

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

    93% of people named Booher identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Booher

    Booher has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Booher?
    6,900 people in the United States had the surname Booher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,746 Americans. It ranked 5,075th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Booher?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Booher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Booher getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,436 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,900 in 2010, up 7.2%.