Bourne

Bourne is the 3,757th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,206 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,206
Rank: 3,757th
How common: 1 in 32,500
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

The placename and English surname are derived from Old English burna (“stream”), whence also the common noun bourne (“stream”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.1%
Black, not Hispanic 18.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bourne

JR Bourne (born 1970)Canadian actor
James Bourne (born 1983)English singer-songwriter
Francis Bourne (1861–1935)British Catholic cardinal
Shae-Lynn Bourne (born 1976)Canadian ice dancer and choreographer
Munroe Bourne (1910–1992)Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
Robert Bourne (1888–1938)British rower
Pi'erre Bourne (born 1993)American record producer and rapper
Randolph Bourne (1886–1918)American writer

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

Surnames like Bourne

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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.