Bosworth

At the 2020 census, 5,078 Americans bore the surname Bosworth — 6,438th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,078
Rank: 6,438th
How common: 1 in 58,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English boswurþ (“cattle enclosure”), from *bōs (attested in derivative bōsih, bōsiġ, bōsg (“cattle-stall”)) + wurþ, weorþ, worþ (“an enclosed place”). See also boose.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Bosworth

Kate Bosworth (born 1983)American actress
Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928–2015)British historian and orientalist
Hobart Bosworth (1867–1943)American film actor, director, writer, and producer
Stephen W. Bosworth (1939–2016)former Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a United States diplomat
Sam Bosworth (born 1994)New Zealand coxswain
Patricia Bosworth (1933–2020)American journalist and actor
Lo Bosworth (born 1986)American reality television personality

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

Surnames like Bosworth

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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.