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    The surname Botha

    A surname, carried by 434 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B300

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Botha is more common than 70% of them.

    Origin

    From Afrikaans Botha. Doublet of Both. * (Botha, Alberta): Named after Louis Botha.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 434 people named Botha in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 711,395 Americans. That is up 55% since 2000, when the Census counted 280.

    #48,628
    rank among US surnames
    434
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +55%
    change since 2000 (was #66,073)

    Who is named Botha

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

    90% of people named Botha identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as two or more races and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Two or more races 4.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Botha

    Botha has the Soundex code B300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B300.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Botha come from?
    From Afrikaans Botha. Doublet of Both. * (Botha, Alberta): Named after Louis Botha.
    How common is the surname Botha?
    434 people in the United States had the surname Botha in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 711,395 Americans. It ranked 48,628th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Botha?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Botha identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Botha getting more or less common?
    More common. 280 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 434 in 2010, up 55%.