How common is the surname Bunge?

1,477 people in the United States had the surname Bunge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,036 Americans. It ranked 18,633rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bunge?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bunge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bunge?

Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020), followed by Alexander Bunge.

Where is the surname Bunge most common?

Wikidata records people named Bunge in the Russian Empire, Canada and Argentina and 3 other countries.

Is the surname Bunge getting more or less common?

More common. 1,448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,477 in 2010, up 2.0%.

The surname Bunge

A surname, carried by 1,477 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). Bunge is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,477 people named Bunge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,036 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,448.

#18,633

rank among US surnames

1,477

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2%

change since 2000 (was #17,823)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,633	Cuyler	1,477	209,036
#18,640	Nees	1,476	209,177

Who is named Bunge

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

92% of people named Bunge identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
Two or more races 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bunges

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
Alexander Bunge
Baltic German botanist (1803–1890)
Delfina Bunge
Argentine writer, 1881–1952
Friedrich Georg von Bunge
Baltic German historian and legal scholar (1802–1897)
Gustav von Bunge
Baltic German physiologist (1844-1920)
Aleksandr Bunge
Baltic German-Russian physician, zoologist and Arctic explorer (1851–1930)
William Bunge
American geographer (1928–2013)

Notable Bunges come mostly from the Russian Empire (2), Canada (1) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bunge

Bunge 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 Bunge?: 1,477 people in the United States had the surname Bunge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,036 Americans. It ranked 18,633rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bunge?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bunge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bunge?: Mario Bunge, Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020), followed by Alexander Bunge.
Where is the surname Bunge most common?: Wikidata records people named Bunge in the Russian Empire, Canada and Argentina and 3 other countries.
Is the surname Bunge getting more or less common?: More common. 1,448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,477 in 2010, up 2.0%.