Bours Surname
Approximately 1,800 people bear this surname
Bours Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 808 | 1:20,900 | 3,314 |
| Belgium | 349 | 1:32,942 | 5,355 |
| United States | 185 | 1:1,959,237 | 126,399 |
| Mexico | 163 | 1:761,510 | 11,327 |
| Germany | 148 | 1:543,956 | 45,184 |
| France | 83 | 1:800,274 | 96,515 |
| Denmark | 16 | 1:352,795 | 24,706 |
| Switzerland | 15 | 1:547,528 | 38,365 |
| England | 15 | 1:3,714,537 | 119,675 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 4 | 1:6,093,842 | 135,151 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 30 | 1:1,673,956 | 87,330 |
Bours Demographics
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Bours Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bours Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bours is borne by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Bours click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bours? popularity and diffusion
It is the 225,704th most frequent surname on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 4,048,637 people. Bours occurs predominantly in Europe, where 80 percent of Bours live; 78 percent live in Western Europe and 64 percent live in Germanic Europe.
The surname Bours is most widespread in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 808 people, or 1 in 20,900. In The Netherlands Bours is mostly found in: Limburg, where 56 percent are found, North Brabant, where 13 percent are found and Gelderland, where 11 percent are found. Barring The Netherlands this last name occurs in 20 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 19 percent are found and The United States, where 10 percent are found.
Bours Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Bours has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Bours surname expanded 617 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 375 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Bours Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Bours last name are 10.37% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 57.14% registered with the political party.
Bours earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 6.5% more than the national average, earning $45,952 USD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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