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The BOSTOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 700 31301 0 3
United States (1880 census) 112 29248 0 2
Change since 1880 +588 -2053 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 416 3784 0.003 25
United Kingdom 3,783 1649 0.008 82
Top States for BOSTOCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 93 6595 0.002 15
California 75 24998 0.000 2
Massachusetts 53 12038 0.001 8
Florida 47 27644 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 34 33252 0.000 3
Top States for BOSTOCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 26 3155 0.004 43
Indiana 93 6595 0.002 15
Nebraska 22 10022 0.001 13
Maine 11 10305 0.001 9
Massachusetts 53 12038 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of BOSTOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOSTOCK 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 BOSTOCK 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 BOSTOCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 618 88.29
Black/African American 42 6
White (Hispanic) 14 2
Mixed Race 12 1.71
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BOSTOCK in historical publications

BOSTOCK. A township in co. Chester.

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 BOSTOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOSTOCK.

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 BOSTOCK

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