# Booth (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/booth/  
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 | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 49,402 |
| US rank (2010) | 697 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 6,250 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.7% (48,580 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /buθ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Booth 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) | 83% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Booth in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Booth

- John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
- Shirley Booth, American actress (1898–1992)
- Douglas Booth, British actor
- Hubert Cecil Booth, British engineer (1871–1955)
- Edwin Booth, American actor (1833–1893)
- Connie Booth, American writer and actress (born 1940)
- Taylor Booth, American soccer player
- Kathleen Booth, British computer scientist (1922–2022)
- Emma Booth, Australian model-turned-actress
- Wayne C. Booth, American academic
- Margaret Booth, American film editor (1898–2002)
- Elmer Booth, American actor (1882-1915)

and 18 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Boothe, Botha, Bott, Bodo, Boot, Boyd, Beatty, Beaty, Bethea, Beattie, Budd, Butt.

## 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.