Boucher

18,845 people in the United States were counted with the surname Boucher in the 2020 census, making it the 1,869th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,900.

By the numbers

People: 18,845
Rank: 1,869th
How common: 1 in 15,900
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Borrowed from French Boucher.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Boucher

François Boucher (1703–1770)French painter
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868)French archaeologist
Gaétan Boucher (born 1958)Canadian speed skater
Anthony Boucher (1911–1968)American author, critic, and editor
Hélène Boucher (1908–1934)French pilot
Candice Boucher (born 1983)South African model
Chris Boucher (born 1993)Saint Lucia-born Canadian basketball player
Zacharie Boucher (born 1992)French footballer

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

Surnames like Boucher

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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.