Boone

At the 2020 census, 51,373 Americans bore the surname Boone — 644th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,818.

By the numbers

People: 51,373
Rank: 644th
How common: 1 in 5,818
Per 100,000: 17.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.2%
Black, not Hispanic 29.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Boone

Daniel Boone (1734–1820)American pioneer and frontiersman
Pat Boone (born 1934)American singer
Megan Boone (born 1983)American actress
Benson Boone (born 2002)American singer
Mark Boone Junior (born 1955)American actor
Richard Boone (1917–1981)American actor
Debby Boone (born 1956)American singer
Ron Boone (born 1946)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Boone

Also a first name

Boone has been given to 6,892 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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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.