How common is the surname Bourg?

2,745 people in the United States had the surname Bourg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,476 Americans. It ranked 11,469th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bourg?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bourg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Bourg?

Bourg is /bɜː(ɹ)/, one syllable.

Is the surname Bourg getting more or less common?

More common. 2,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,745 in 2010, up 2.5%.

What are other spellings of Bourg?

Burgh, Burke, Bourke and Burgo.

The surname Bourg

A French surname, carried by 2,745 people in the United States.

Pronounced /bɜː(ɹ)/ 1 syllable Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bourg is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

French origin

From the Anglo-Norman word burgh.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,745 people named Bourg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,476 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,678.

#11,469

rank among US surnames

2,745

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #10,907)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,462	Eudy	2,749	112,312
#11,463	Coogan	2,748	112,353
#11,466	Virgil	2,746	112,435
#11,469	Breshears	2,745	112,476
#11,472	Mattis	2,744	112,517
#11,474	McConville	2,743	112,558
#11,476	Araya	2,742	112,599

Who is named Bourg

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

94% of people named Bourg identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Burgh
Burke
Bourke
Burgo

Surnames that sound like Bourg

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

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bourg come from?: From the Anglo-Norman word burgh.
How common is the surname Bourg?: 2,745 people in the United States had the surname Bourg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,476 Americans. It ranked 11,469th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bourg?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bourg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Bourg?: Bourg is /bɜː(ɹ)/, one syllable.
Is the surname Bourg getting more or less common?: More common. 2,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,745 in 2010, up 2.5%.
What are other spellings of Bourg?: Burgh, Burke, Bourke and Burgo.