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    The surname Boose

    A surname, carried by 2,550 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

    Boose: #12,212 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Boose #12,212, 2,550 people Boose: #12,212 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Boose #12,212, 2,550 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boose is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,550 people named Boose in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,077 Americans. That is up 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,362.

    #12,212
    rank among US surnames
    2,550
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8%
    change since 2000 (was #12,107)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,204Stimson2,552120,982
    #12,208Getchell2,551121,029
    #12,212Wicklund2,550121,077
    #12,215Hemmer2,549121,124
    #12,218Hover2,548121,172
    #12,221Berrier2,547121,219

    Who is named Boose

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

    53% of people named Boose identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 53%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 40%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Boose

    Boose has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Boose?
    2,550 people in the United States had the surname Boose in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,077 Americans. It ranked 12,212th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boose?
    In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Boose identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Boose getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,362 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,550 in 2010, up 8.0%.