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    The surname Bouknight

    A surname, carried by 1,494 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B252

    Bouknight: #18,499 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bouknight #18,499, 1,494 people Bouknight: #18,499 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bouknight #18,499, 1,494 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bouknight is more common than 88.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,494 people named Bouknight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 206,657 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,436.

    #18,499
    rank among US surnames
    1,494
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,943)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,499Bouknight1,494206,657
    #18,502Meidinger1,493206,795
    #18,507In1,492206,934

    Who is named Bouknight

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

    54% of people named Bouknight identified as white (not Hispanic), 42% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 54%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 42%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bouknight

    Bouknight has the Soundex code B252, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B252.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bouknight?
    1,494 people in the United States had the surname Bouknight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 206,657 Americans. It ranked 18,499th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bouknight?
    In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Bouknight identified as white (not Hispanic), and 42% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bouknight getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,436 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,494 in 2010, up 4.0%.