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    The surname Bourn

    A surname, carried by 1,919 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

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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). Bourn is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,919 people named Bourn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,848.

    #15,296
    rank among US surnames
    1,919
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #14,737)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,289Jenkinson1,920160,805
    #15,296Brasfield1,919160,889
    #15,303Canto1,918160,973

    Who is named Bourn

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

    83% of people named Bourn identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bourn

    Bourn has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bourn?
    1,919 people in the United States had the surname Bourn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. It ranked 15,296th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bourn?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Bourn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bourn getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,848 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,919 in 2010, up 3.8%.