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    The surname Deboer

    A Dutch surname, carried by 7,798 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D160

    Deboer: #4,543 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Deboer #4,543, 7,798 people Deboer: #4,543 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Deboer #4,543, 7,798 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deboer is more common than 97.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    From Dutch de Boer.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,798 people named Deboer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,593 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,456.

    #4,543
    rank among US surnames
    7,798
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #4,398)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,539Hair7,81439,512
    #4,541Vanwinkle7,81139,527
    #4,542Caldera7,80239,573
    #4,543Deboer7,79839,593

    Who is named Deboer

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

    96% of people named Deboer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Deboer

    Deboer has the Soundex code D160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D160.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Deboer come from?
    From Dutch de Boer.
    How common is the surname Deboer?
    7,798 people in the United States had the surname Deboer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,593 Americans. It ranked 4,543rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deboer?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Deboer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Deboer getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,798 in 2010, up 4.6%.
    What are other spellings of Deboer?
    Boer.