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The BONUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 511 40335 0 2
United States (1880 census) 30 63429 0 1
Change since 1880 +481 +23094 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 50 25515 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BONUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 92 15420 0.001 7
California 85 25848 0.000 3
New York 64 27706 0.000 3
Washington 36 18545 0.001 6
New Jersey 33 28636 0.000 4
Top States for BONUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 6 16762 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 92 15420 0.001 7
Washington 36 18545 0.001 6
Hawaii 5 20088 0.000 4
New Jersey 33 28636 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BONUS

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

Ethnic distribution of BONUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 375 73.39
Asian/Pacific 107 20.94
White (Hispanic) 15 2.94
Black/African American 8 1.57
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BONUS in historical publications

BONUS. The latinization of Good.

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 BONUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BONUS.

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 BONUS

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