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    The surname Buie

    A surname, carried by 5,943 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B000

    Buie: #5,816 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Buie #5,816, 5,943 people Buie: #5,816 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Buie #5,816, 5,943 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buie is more common than 96.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 5,943 people named Buie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 51,951 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,556.

    #5,816
    rank among US surnames
    5,943
    people in 2010
    2.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #5,721)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,807McGinn5,95551,846
    #5,809Bard5,95351,864
    #5,810Federico5,95151,881
    #5,811Peraza5,94951,899
    #5,812Radcliffe5,94851,907
    #5,813Jacks5,94651,925
    #5,815Eberle5,94451,942

    Who is named Buie

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

    49% of people named Buie identified as white (not Hispanic), 46% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Buies

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Marc Buie
      American astronomer, born 1958

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Buie

    Buie has the Soundex code B000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B000.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Buie?
    5,943 people in the United States had the surname Buie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 51,951 Americans. It ranked 5,816th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buie?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Buie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 46% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Buie?
    Marc Buie, American astronomer.
    Where is the surname Buie most common?
    Wikidata records people named Buie in the United States.
    Is the surname Buie getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,943 in 2010, up 7.0%.