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The BOYES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,982 13971 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 405 11379 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1577 -2592 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 609 2650 0.004 37
United Kingdom 3,788 1645 0.008 82
Top States for BOYES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 249 10306 0.001 7
Ohio 195 6871 0.002 17
Washington 134 5427 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 110 13147 0.001 9
Florida 107 15906 0.001 7
Top States for BOYES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 36 4336 0.003 34
Washington 134 5427 0.002 23
Colorado 93 5844 0.002 22
Nebraska 34 7768 0.002 20
Ohio 195 6871 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of BOYES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 53 2.67
Mixed Race 27 1.36
Black/African American 18 0.91
White (Caucasian) 1,872 94.45
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 BOYES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOYES in historical publications

BOYES. See Boys.

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 BOYES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOYES.

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 BOYES

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