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    The surname Buker

    A surname, carried by 1,561 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B260

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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). Buker is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,561 people named Buker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 197,787 Americans. That is down 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,678.

    #17,911
    rank among US surnames
    1,561
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7%
    change since 2000 (was #15,910)

    Who is named Buker

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

    93% of people named Buker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Buker

    Buker has the Soundex code B260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Buker?
    1,561 people in the United States had the surname Buker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,787 Americans. It ranked 17,911th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buker?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Buker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Buker getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,561 in 2010, down 7.0%.