The Bourne surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,270 people carried this name — #3,823 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 31,800 people counted. That is up 4% from 8,884 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 432 people named Bourne.
36 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 40 départements, most often Isère.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
35 people named Bourne live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
27 people named Bourne is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Bourne,
with a public archive behind them.
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Edna B. Holman d. 1928 · writer
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John Bourne d. 1575 · politician
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John Bourne d. 1558 · politician
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Catherine Harriet Bourne d. 1945
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Michael Bourne d. 2013
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Alice Bourne d. 1658
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bourne.
- Bourgois 114 · U.S. census
- Bourgon 104 · U.S. census
- Bourgue 147 · U.S. census
- Bourguignon 317 · U.S. census
- Bourland 2,380 · U.S. census
- Bourlier 280 · U.S. census
- Bournique 104 · U.S. census
- Bourque 8,973 · U.S. census
- Bourquin 1,051 · U.S. census
- Bourret 383 · U.S. census
- Boursiquot 569 · U.S. census
- Boury 134 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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