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    The surname Borum

    A surname, carried by 2,287 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B650

    Borum: #13,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Borum #13,334, 2,287 people Borum: #13,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Borum #13,334, 2,287 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Borum is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,287 people named Borum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,000 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,193.

    #13,334
    rank among US surnames
    2,287
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,865)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,326Lamotte2,289134,882
    #13,330Bothwell2,288134,941
    #13,334Korb2,287135,000
    #13,338Saxena2,286135,059

    Who is named Borum

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

    64% of people named Borum identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 64%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Borum

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Borum?
    2,287 people in the United States had the surname Borum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,000 Americans. It ranked 13,334th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Borum?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Borum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Borum getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,193 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,287 in 2010, up 4.3%.