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The BONIFACE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 845 26987 0 3
United States (1880 census) 75 38022 0 2
Change since 1880 +770 +11035 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 229 6654 0.001 14
United Kingdom 1,407 3966 0.003 31
Top States for BONIFACE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 130 13092 0.001 7
Florida 77 19410 0.000 5
California 68 29332 0.000 2
New Jersey 60 14525 0.001 7
Maryland 54 9201 0.001 10
Top States for BONIFACE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 54 9201 0.001 10
New Hampshire 11 11379 0.001 9
Alaska 5 16758 0.001 8
South Carolina 30 9865 0.001 7
New Jersey 60 14525 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of BONIFACE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BONIFACE 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 BONIFACE 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 BONIFACE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 750 88.76
Black/African American 43 5.09
White (Hispanic) 24 2.84
Asian/Pacific 12 1.42
Mixed Race 8 0.95
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.95

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

Meaning of BONIFACE in historical publications

BONIFACE. A well-known personal name, borne by several popes, &c.

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 BONIFACE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BONIFACE.

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 BONIFACE

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