Last Name BONIFACE

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Meaning A well-doer, the name of a martyr, and also a pope. Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterbury (1270), would give an English empetus to this name, just at the time when surnames were becoming hereditary.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Creole, Belgian, Zimbabwean

Rank 26,987 (2000 US census) 74,783 (1990 US census)
Count 845 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 88.76%, or 750 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 5.09%, or 43 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.42%, or 12 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.95%, or 8 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.95%, or 8 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.84%, or 24 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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