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    The surname Boughton

    An English place surname, carried by 3,233 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B235

    Boughton: #9,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Boughton #9,978, 3,233 people Boughton: #9,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Boughton #9,978, 3,233 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boughton is more common than 93.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Boughton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,233 people named Boughton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,498 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,171.

    #9,978
    rank among US surnames
    3,233
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #9,410)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,969Bolyard3,23595,439
    #9,976Leitch3,23495,469
    #9,978Million3,23395,498
    #9,983Line3,23195,557
    #9,987Chavers3,23095,587

    Who is named Boughton

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

    88% of people named Boughton identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Boughtons

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Alice Boughton
      American photographer (1866–1943)
    • Rutland Boughton
      British composer (1878–1960)

    Notable Boughtons come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Boughton

    Boughton has the Soundex code B235, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B235.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Boughton come from?
    From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Boughton?
    3,233 people in the United States had the surname Boughton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,498 Americans. It ranked 9,978th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boughton?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Boughton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Boughton?
    Alice Boughton, American photographer (1866–1943), followed by Rutland Boughton.
    Where is the surname Boughton most common?
    Wikidata records people named Boughton in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Boughton?
    Boughton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Boughton getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,233 in 2010, up 2.0%.