Bounds

At the 2020 census, 7,625 Americans bore the surname Bounds — 4,523rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,625
Rank: 4,523rd
How common: 1 in 39,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Bounds

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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.