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    The surname Borders

    A surname, carried by 9,053 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B636

    Borders: #3,928 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Borders #3,928, 9,053 people Borders: #3,928 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Borders #3,928, 9,053 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Borders is more common than 97.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,053 people named Borders in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,104 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,618.

    #3,928
    rank among US surnames
    9,053
    people in 2010
    3.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #3,775)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,919Redden9,06734,052
    #3,920Goad9,06234,070
    #3,922Lazaro9,06134,074
    #3,923Erb9,06034,078
    #3,924Putman9,05834,085
    #3,925Martel9,05634,093
    #3,927Reimer9,05534,097

    Who is named Borders

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

    73% of people named Borders identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Borders

    Borders has the Soundex code B636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B636.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Borders?
    9,053 people in the United States had the surname Borders in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,104 Americans. It ranked 3,928th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Borders?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Borders identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Borders getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,053 in 2010, up 5.0%.