Bunting

Bunting is the 4,225th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,120 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,800.

By the numbers

People: 8,120
Rank: 4,225th
How common: 1 in 36,800
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From bunting, a nickname for someone who resembled the songbird.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.1%
Black, not Hispanic 9.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Bunting

Stephen Bunting (born 1985)English darts player
Basil Bunting (1900–1985)poet

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

Surnames like Bunting

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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.