The Bouras surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 364 people carried this name — #53,299 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 466 people named Bouras.
231 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 42 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 214 people named Bouras live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
55 people named Bouras live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Bouras in American newspapers,
1908–1958.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 28,505 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Bouras,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mohamed Bouras 1908–1941 -
Djamel Bouras 1971– · judoka -
Nadia Bouras 1981– · historian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 16 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bouras.
- Boulis 214 · U.S. census
- Boun 125 · U.S. census
- Bounous 136 · U.S. census
- Bouquet 516 · U.S. census
- Bouquin 118 · U.S. census
- Bour 688 · U.S. census
- Bourbon 632 · U.S. census
- Bourbonnais 261 · U.S. census
- Bourcier 476 · U.S. census
- Bourcy 146 · U.S. census
- Bourda 201 · U.S. census
- Bourdeau 1,771 · U.S. census
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