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    The surname Busk

    A Danish place surname, carried by 527 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

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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). Busk is more common than 74.5% of them.

    Origin

    Danish origin

    Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Busk; alternatively, it could be an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a bush, from Old Norse buskr (“bush”).

    Busk is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 50 Danish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 527 people named Busk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 585,855 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 504.

    #41,303
    rank among US surnames
    527
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #40,833)

    Who is named Busk

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

    91% of people named Busk identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as two or more races and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Two or more races 3.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Busk

    Busk has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Other Danish surnames

    All 50 Danish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Busk come from?
    Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Busk; alternatively, it could be an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a bush, from Old Norse buskr (“bush”).
    How common is the surname Busk?
    527 people in the United States had the surname Busk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 585,855 Americans. It ranked 41,303rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Busk?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Busk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Busk?
    Busk is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Busk getting more or less common?
    More common. 504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 527 in 2010, up 4.6%.