Bogan

At the 2020 census, 7,653 Americans bore the surname Bogan — 4,511th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,653
Rank: 4,511th
How common: 1 in 39,100
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Bogáin (“descendant of Bogán”), a personal name from a diminutive form of bog (“soft, tender”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 49.0%
Black, not Hispanic 42.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Bogan

Louise Bogan (1897–1970)American poet

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

Surnames like Bogan

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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.