The surname Butner
A surname, carried by 1,822 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B356
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,822 people named Butner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,454 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,840.
#15,947
rank among US surnames
1,822
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-1%
change since 2000 (was #14,799)
Who is named Butner
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Butner identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- 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
Butner has the Soundex code B356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B356.
Questions
- How common is the surname Butner?
- 1,822 people in the United States had the surname Butner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,454 Americans. It ranked 15,947th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Butner?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Butner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Butner getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,840 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,822 in 2010, down 1.0%.