How common is the surname Bunce?

4,126 people in the United States had the surname Bunce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. It ranked 8,023rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bunce?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bunce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bunce getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,175 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,126 in 2010, down 1.2%.

The surname Bunce

A surname, carried by 4,126 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bunce is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,126 people named Bunce in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. That is down 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,175.

#8,023

rank among US surnames

4,126

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-1.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,351)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,016	Kaul	4,128	74,793
#8,019	Pawlak	4,127	74,811
#8,023	Markel	4,126	74,829
#8,027	Polson	4,125	74,847
#8,028	Giffin	4,124	74,866
#8,029	Fulford	4,123	74,884
#8,030	Nystrom	4,122	74,902

Who is named Bunce

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

93% of people named Bunce identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bunce

Bunce has the Soundex code B520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B520.

Questions

How common is the surname Bunce?: 4,126 people in the United States had the surname Bunce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. It ranked 8,023rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bunce?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bunce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bunce getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,175 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,126 in 2010, down 1.2%.