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    The surname Bucknell

    An English place surname, carried by 448 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B254

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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). Bucknell is more common than 70.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the genitive form of either the Old English personal name Bucca or bucca (“he-goat”) + hyll (“hill”).

    Bucknell is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 448 people named Bucknell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 689,164 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 442.

    #47,356
    rank among US surnames
    448
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #45,573)

    Who is named Bucknell

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

    92% of people named Bucknell identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Bucknill

    Surnames that sound like Bucknell

    Bucknell has the Soundex code B254, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B254.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bucknell come from?
    From the genitive form of either the Old English personal name Bucca or bucca (“he-goat”) + hyll (“hill”).
    How common is the surname Bucknell?
    448 people in the United States had the surname Bucknell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 689,164 Americans. It ranked 47,356th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bucknell?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bucknell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bucknell?
    Bucknell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bucknell getting more or less common?
    More common. 442 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 448 in 2010, up 1.4%.
    What are other spellings of Bucknell?
    Bucknill.