Last Name BORN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: At the bourn, from residence thereby.

Origin	English, Jewish, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Irish, Maltese, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	5,042 (2000 US census)	5,419 (1990 US census)

Count	6,385 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.63%, or 6106 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.24%, or 79 total occurrences, as black,
1%, or 64 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.23%, or 15 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.94%, or 60 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
0.96%, or 61 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Belarus middle names

Belarus middle names form the same way as Russian ones, in part due to general common history of the Russian and Belarus nationalities, and in part due to very close integration of all nationalities during the Soviet Union times. Follow the