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    The surname Buetow

    A German place surname, carried by 631 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B300

    Buetow: #35,622 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Buetow #35,622, 631 people Buetow: #35,622 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Buetow #35,622, 631 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buetow is more common than 78% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Bütow, a habitational surname from the town of Bytów, in Poland.

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

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 631 people named Buetow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 489,296 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 554.

    #35,622
    rank among US surnames
    631
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.9%
    change since 2000 (was #37,728)

    Who is named Buetow

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

    95% of people named Buetow identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    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

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    Surnames that sound like Buetow

    Buetow has the Soundex code B300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B300.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Buetow come from?
    Borrowed from German Bütow, a habitational surname from the town of Bytów, in Poland.
    How common is the surname Buetow?
    631 people in the United States had the surname Buetow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 489,296 Americans. It ranked 35,622nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buetow?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Buetow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Buetow?
    Buetow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Buetow getting more or less common?
    More common. 554 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 631 in 2010, up 14%.