The BOILEAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	869	26419	0	3
United States (1880 census)	121	27717	0	2
Change since 1880	+748	+1298	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	77	17804	0	5
United Kingdom	176	17786	0	4

Top States for BOILEAU by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	96	13992	0.001	6
Michigan	59	16304	0.001	6
Pennsylvania	53	20618	0.000	4
Washington	51	10797	0.001	9
Oregon	50	6625	0.001	15
Top States for BOILEAU by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	22	4684	0.003	28
Oregon	50	6625	0.001	15
Connecticut	38	9213	0.001	11
Kansas	28	8689	0.001	10
Montana	9	11993	0.001	10

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BOILEAU

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOILEAU 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.

Ethnic distribution of BOILEAU in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	827	95.17
Black/African American	17	1.96
Mixed Race	10	1.15
White (Hispanic)	8	0.92
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 BOILEAU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOILEAU in historical publications

BOILEAU. On a tablet in Ketteringham church, Norfolk, to the memory of John Peter Boileau, Esq., it is stated that " he was the son of Simeon B., Esq., merchant, of Dublin, whose father, Charles Boileau, baron of Castleuau and Sainte Croix, in the province of Languedoc, in France, fled to England in 1691, on the persecution of the Protestant religion." The family descend in an unbroken line from Etienue Boileau, first grand provost of Paris in 1250 ; and they were early professors and zealous defenders of the reformed faith. Another branch of the family fled from France into Italy to avoid persecution, and subsequently -sn-ote themselves Bevelaqua. The Duke of Bevelaqua bears the same arms as the English baronet, and both names are of course equivalent to our indigenous Drinkwater.

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 BOILEAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOILEAU.

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.