The surname Buzzard
A French surname, carried by 3,287 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B263
Origin
French origin
A surname from Old French.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,287 people named Buzzard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,929 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,379.
Who is named Buzzard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Buzzard identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 5.8%
- Two or more races 3.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Buzzard has the Soundex code B263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B263.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Buzzard come from?
- Buzzard is French in origin.
- How common is the surname Buzzard?
- 3,287 people in the United States had the surname Buzzard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,929 Americans. It ranked 9,845th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Buzzard?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Buzzard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Buzzard getting more or less common?
- Less common. 3,379 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,287 in 2010, down 2.7%.