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The surname Bullins

A surname, carried by 1,764 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B452

Bullins: #16,338 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bullins #16,338, 1,764 people Bullins: #16,338 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bullins #16,338, 1,764 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bullins is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

Perhaps a variant of Bullen or Bullion.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,764 people named Bullins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,026 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,625.

#16,338
rank among US surnames
1,764
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+8.6%
change since 2000 (was #16,326)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,338Sifford1,764175,026
#16,343Scheffer1,763175,125

Who is named Bullins

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

91% of people named Bullins identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Bullins

Bullins has the Soundex code B452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B452.

Questions

Where does the surname Bullins come from?
Perhaps a variant of Bullen or Bullion.
How common is the surname Bullins?
1,764 people in the United States had the surname Bullins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,026 Americans. It ranked 16,338th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bullins?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bullins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Bullins getting more or less common?
More common. 1,625 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,764 in 2010, up 8.6%.