How common is the surname Boron?

924 people in the United States had the surname Boron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 334,140 Americans. It ranked 26,422nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Boron?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Boron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Boron getting more or less common?

Less common. 944 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 924 in 2010, down 2.1%.

The surname Boron

A place surname, carried by 924 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boron is more common than 83.7% of them.

Origin

* As a Polish surname, pet form of Borzysław, Borzymir, formed from obsolete bor (“to fight”), from Proto-Slavic *borti. * As a French surname, from a placename in Franche-Comté. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Baron. * The placename in California is from the element boron.

Boron is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 924 people named Boron in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 334,140 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 944.

#26,422

rank among US surnames

924

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-2.1%

change since 2000 (was #24,763)

Who is named Boron

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

95% of people named Boron identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Two or more races 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Boron

Boron has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

Questions

Where does the surname Boron come from?: * As a Polish surname, pet form of Borzysław, Borzymir, formed from obsolete bor (“to fight”), from Proto-Slavic *borti. * As a French surname, from a placename in Franche-Comté. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Baron. * The placename in California is from the element boron.
How common is the surname Boron?: 924 people in the United States had the surname Boron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 334,140 Americans. It ranked 26,422nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Boron?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Boron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Boron?: Boron is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Boron getting more or less common?: Less common. 944 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 924 in 2010, down 2.1%.