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The BONE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,753 3088 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 2,873 2125 0.006 57
Change since 1880 +7880 -963 -0.002 -17
Other Countries
Australia 1,437 1139 0.009 88
United Kingdom 6,530 970 0.014 142
Top States for BONE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 873 2770 0.004 42
Georgia 820 1348 0.010 100
California 760 4101 0.002 22
Missouri 694 1058 0.012 124
Alabama 657 1180 0.015 148
Top States for BONE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 657 1180 0.015 148
Missouri 694 1058 0.012 124
Utah 224 1433 0.010 100
Georgia 820 1348 0.010 100
Tennessee 512 1753 0.009 90

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

Classification and Origin of BONE

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 BONE 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 BONE 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 BONE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 947 8.81
White (Hispanic) 322 2.99
Mixed Race 194 1.8
Asian/Pacific 96 0.89
Native American/Alaskan 72 0.67
White (Caucasian) 9,122 84.83

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

Meaning of BONE in historical publications

BONE. A probable corruption of Bohun. See Bowne.

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 BONE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BONE.

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 BONE

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