The surname Bordas
A Catalan occupational surname, carried by 557 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B632
Origin
Catalan origin
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Bordas, a respelling of Bordes. * Borrowed from Hungarian Bordás, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver.
Bordas is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 557 people named Bordas in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 480.
Who is named Bordas
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
67% of people named Bordas identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 67%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 29%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 2.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Bordas has the Soundex code B632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B632.
Other Catalan surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Bordas come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Catalan Bordas, a respelling of Bordes. * Borrowed from Hungarian Bordás, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver.
- How common is the surname Bordas?
- 557 people in the United States had the surname Bordas in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. It ranked 39,486th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bordas?
- In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Bordas identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Bordas?
- Bordas is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Bordas getting more or less common?
- More common. 480 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 557 in 2010, up 16%.