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    The surname Bort

    A Yiddish nickname surname, carried by 680 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B630

    Bort: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bort #33,530, 680 people Bort: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Bort #33,530, 680 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bort is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    Yiddish origin

    Borrowed from Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), nickname of a man with a remarkable beard.

    Bort is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 680 people named Bort in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 673.

    #33,530
    rank among US surnames
    680
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,267)

    Who is named Bort

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

    90% of people named Bort identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Bort

    Bort has the Soundex code B630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B630.

    Other Yiddish surnames

    All 31 Yiddish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bort come from?
    Borrowed from Yiddish באָרד (bord, “beard”), nickname of a man with a remarkable beard.
    How common is the surname Bort?
    680 people in the United States had the surname Bort in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. It ranked 33,530th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bort?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Bort identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bort?
    Bort is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Bort getting more or less common?
    More common. 673 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 680 in 2010, up 1.0%.