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The BOGUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,496 8660 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 981 5544 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +2515 -3116 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 34 34703 0 2
United Kingdom 276 13441 0.001 6
Top States for BOGUE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 327 8379 0.001 10
Texas 270 7139 0.001 13
Indiana 228 3476 0.004 37
Connecticut 212 2130 0.006 62
Missouri 192 3924 0.003 34
Top States for BOGUE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 212 2130 0.006 62
Vermont 34 2947 0.006 56
South Dakota 40 3154 0.005 53
Indiana 228 3476 0.004 37
Missouri 192 3924 0.003 34

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BOGUE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOGUE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOGUE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOGUE by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOGUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOGUE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BOGUE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BOGUE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 80 2.29
Black/African American 58 1.66
Mixed Race 43 1.23
Asian/Pacific 26 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.4
White (Caucasian) 3,275 93.68

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BOGUE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOGUE in historical publications

(origin: Local) From the residence being near a bog, or from the Saxon boga, a bend, a bow, a corner; a town in France; the name appears on ancient coins in Sussex, England.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BOGE. BOGUE. Boge occurs on Sax. coins, as the name of a moneyer.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BOGUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOGUE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BOGUE

The following words are slight variants of BOGUE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.