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The BOAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 872 26332 0 3
United States (1880 census) 400 11504 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +472 -14828 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 30 38589 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BOAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 132 10451 0.001 11
California 108 19990 0.000 3
New York 99 17452 0.001 5
Florida 73 20848 0.000 5
Indiana 50 12406 0.001 8
Top States for BOAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 132 10451 0.001 11
Alaska 6 14143 0.001 10
Indiana 50 12406 0.001 8
Vermont 5 12624 0.001 8
Iowa 23 17045 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 BOAS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOAS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOAS in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOAS by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOAS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BOAS surname.

Ethnic distribution of BOAS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 799 91.63
White (Hispanic) 31 3.56
Mixed Race 18 2.06
Black/African American 13 1.49
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 BOAS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BOAS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BOAS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BOAS.

Similar names to BOAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOAS.

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 BOAS

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