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    The surname Bunde

    A German occupational surname, carried by 615 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B530

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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). Bunde is more common than 77.6% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German bunde (“peasant, farmer”), see Bond. * As a German surname, from the archaic Beunte (“enclosed piece of land”), a derivative of biwenden (“to weave, bend”), equivalent to be- + wenden. * Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place Bünde in Westphalia. Borrowed from German Bunde or Bünde.

    Bunde is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    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 615 people named Bunde in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 502,025 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 597.

    #36,379
    rank among US surnames
    615
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3%
    change since 2000 (was #35,621)

    Who is named Bunde

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

    94% of people named Bunde identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bunde

    Bunde has the Soundex code B530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B530.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bunde come from?
    * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German bunde (“peasant, farmer”), see Bond. * As a German surname, from the archaic Beunte (“enclosed piece of land”), a derivative of biwenden (“to weave, bend”), equivalent to be- + wenden. * Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place…
    How common is the surname Bunde?
    615 people in the United States had the surname Bunde in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 502,025 Americans. It ranked 36,379th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bunde?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bunde identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bunde?
    Bunde is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Bunde getting more or less common?
    More common. 597 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 615 in 2010, up 3.0%.