# Boot (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/boot/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 510 |
| US rank (2010) | 42,511 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 605,383 people |
| Change since 2000 | -27.2% (701 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun boot. * As a Dutch and German surname, from Bote (“messenger”), compare Bode. Also an occupational surname for a boatman, from boot.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Boot in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Boot in Kingdom of the Netherlands.

## People named Boot

- Jaap Boot, athletics competitor (1903–1986)

## Similar surnames

Bott, Botta, Botti, Bodo, Booth, Boothe, Botha, Boyd, Beatty, Beaty, Bethea, Beattie.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.