Boe

3,806 people in the United States were counted with the surname Boe in the 2020 census, making it the 8,328th most common in the country. That is about one person in 78,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,806
Rank: 8,328th
How common: 1 in 78,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Boe

Alisha Boe (born 1997)Norwegian actress
Eric Boe (born 1964)American astronaut
Mathias Boe (born 1980)Danish badminton player
Alfie Boe (born 1973)English actor and singer
Christoffer Boe (born 1974)Danish filmmaker

People named Boe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boe

Also a first name

Boe has been given to 1,101 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.