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    The surname Bunton

    A surname, carried by 4,191 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B535

    Bunton: #7,899 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bunton #7,899, 4,191 people Bunton: #7,899 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bunton #7,899, 4,191 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bunton 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 4,191 people named Bunton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,669 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,946.

    #7,899
    rank among US surnames
    4,191
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,765)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,894Gallimore4,19573,598
    #7,896Brawley4,19373,634
    #7,898Hartsfield4,19273,651
    #7,899Bunton4,19173,669
    #7,900Waldon4,19073,686
    #7,903Sikorski4,18973,704

    Who is named Bunton

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

    66% of people named Bunton identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bunton

    Bunton has the Soundex code B535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B535.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Bunton?
    4,191 people in the United States had the surname Bunton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,669 Americans. It ranked 7,899th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bunton?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Bunton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bunton getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,946 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,191 in 2010, up 6.2%.