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    The surname Bostick

    A surname, carried by 7,957 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B232

    Bostick: #4,460 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bostick #4,460, 7,957 people Bostick: #4,460 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bostick #4,460, 7,957 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bostick is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,957 people named Bostick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,802 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,614.

    #4,460
    rank among US surnames
    7,957
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,314)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,451Segal7,97238,729
    #4,452Earnest7,96838,748
    #4,454Nall7,96638,758
    #4,455Clanton7,96538,763
    #4,456Geyer7,96238,777
    #4,457Bounds7,96038,787
    #4,458Lundberg7,95838,797

    Who is named Bostick

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

    56% of people named Bostick identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • 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 Bostick

    Bostick has the Soundex code B232, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B232.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bostick?
    7,957 people in the United States had the surname Bostick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,802 Americans. It ranked 4,460th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bostick?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Bostick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bostick getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,614 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,957 in 2010, up 4.5%.