How common is the surname Boydstun?

1,045 people in the United States had the surname Boydstun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 295,450 Americans. It ranked 24,090th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Boydstun?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Boydstun identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Boydstun getting more or less common?

More common. 1,018 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,045 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Boydstun

A surname, carried by 1,045 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B323

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boydstun is more common than 85.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,045 people named Boydstun in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 295,450 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,018.

#24,090

rank among US surnames

1,045

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #23,326)

Who is named Boydstun

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

87% of people named Boydstun identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
American Indian and Alaska Native 5.7%
Two or more races 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Boydstun

Boydston

Boydstun has the Soundex code B323, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B323.

Questions

How common is the surname Boydstun?: 1,045 people in the United States had the surname Boydstun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 295,450 Americans. It ranked 24,090th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Boydstun?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Boydstun identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Boydstun getting more or less common?: More common. 1,018 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,045 in 2010, up 2.7%.