The surname Bunting
A nickname surname, carried by 8,725 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B535
Origin
From bunting, a nickname for someone who resembled the songbird.
Bunting is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 8,725 people named Bunting in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,386 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,423.
Who is named Bunting
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Bunting identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Bunting has the Soundex code B535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B535.
Questions
- Where does the surname Bunting come from?
- From bunting, a nickname for someone who resembled the songbird.
- How common is the surname Bunting?
- 8,725 people in the United States had the surname Bunting in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,386 Americans. It ranked 4,072nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bunting?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Bunting identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Bunting?
- Bunting is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Bunting getting more or less common?
- More common. 8,423 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,725 in 2010, up 3.6%.