How common is the surname Bourassa?

2,886 people in the United States had the surname Bourassa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. It ranked 11,021st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bourassa?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bourassa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bourassa getting more or less common?

More common. 2,845 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,886 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Bourassa

A surname, carried by 2,886 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bourassa is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,886 people named Bourassa in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,845.

#11,021

rank among US surnames

2,886

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,382)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,013	Gatti	2,888	106,906
#11,016	Juneau	2,887	106,943
#11,021	Bourassa	2,886	106,980
#11,025	Milazzo	2,885	107,018
#11,026	Feder	2,884	107,055
#11,030	Hauge	2,883	107,092

Who is named Bourassa

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

95% of people named Bourassa identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bourassa

Bourassa has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

Questions

How common is the surname Bourassa?: 2,886 people in the United States had the surname Bourassa in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. It ranked 11,021st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bourassa?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bourassa identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bourassa getting more or less common?: More common. 2,845 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,886 in 2010, up 1.4%.