The surname Buchanon
A surname, carried by 1,092 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex B255
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,092 people named Buchanon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 282,734 Americans. That is down 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,155.
#23,315
rank among US surnames
1,092
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-5.5%
change since 2000 (was #21,176)
Who is named Buchanon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Buchanon identified as Black (not Hispanic), 42% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 51%
- White (not Hispanic) 42%
- Two or more races 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Buchanon has the Soundex code B255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B255.
Questions
- How common is the surname Buchanon?
- 1,092 people in the United States had the surname Buchanon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 282,734 Americans. It ranked 23,315th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Buchanon?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Buchanon identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 42% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Buchanon getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,155 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,092 in 2010, down 5.5%.