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The surname Boyter

A French surname, carried by 1,026 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B360

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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). Boyter is more common than 85% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

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 1,026 people named Boyter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 300,922 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 995.

#24,404
rank among US surnames
1,026
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+3.1%
change since 2000 (was #23,739)

Who is named Boyter

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

95% of people named Boyter identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Boyter

Boyter has the Soundex code B360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B360.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Boyter come from?
Boyter is French in origin.
How common is the surname Boyter?
1,026 people in the United States had the surname Boyter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 300,922 Americans. It ranked 24,404th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Boyter?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Boyter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
Is the surname Boyter getting more or less common?
More common. 995 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,026 in 2010, up 3.1%.