How common is the surname Borst?

4,048 people in the United States had the surname Borst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,271 Americans. It ranked 8,198th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Borst?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Borst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Borst getting more or less common?

More common. 3,741 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,048 in 2010, up 8.2%.

The surname Borst

A surname, carried by 4,048 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B623

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Borst is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,048 people named Borst in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,271 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,741.

#8,198

rank among US surnames

4,048

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,159)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,189	Severino	4,051	76,215
#8,195	Teter	4,050	76,233
#8,196	McAbee	4,049	76,252
#8,198	Woosley	4,048	76,271
#8,201	Macomber	4,047	76,290
#8,205	Gallup	4,046	76,309
#8,206	Matamoros	4,044	76,347

Who is named Borst

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

94% of people named Borst identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Borst

Borst has the Soundex code B623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B623.

Questions

How common is the surname Borst?: 4,048 people in the United States had the surname Borst in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,271 Americans. It ranked 8,198th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Borst?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Borst identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Borst getting more or less common?: More common. 3,741 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,048 in 2010, up 8.2%.