Explore the Family Name Boeckman

The meaning of Boeckman

1. Dutch: archaic variant of Boekman, a topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree, from Middle Dutch boeke ‘beech’ + man ‘man’. The surname Boekman is rare in the Netherlands, while the variant Boeckman is no longer found there. Compare Bookman. 2. Americanized form of German Böckmann (see Boeckmann), a cognate of 1 above. Compare Beckman.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Boeckman in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Boeckman had a slight decrease in rank between 2000 and 2010, moving from the 21,069th most popular name to the 21,288th. However, the actual count of people with the Boeckman surname increased by about 6 percent during this time period, from 1,162 to 1,231 individuals. The proportion of people with this surname per 100,000 decreased slightly by 2.33 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#21,069	#21,288	-1.04%
Count	1,162	1,231	5.94%
Proportion per 100k	0.43	0.42	-2.33%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Boeckman

Regarding ethnicity, the data from the Decennial U.S. Census shows an increase in the number of people with the Boeckman surname identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander and those reporting as two or more races between 2000 and 2010 - up by 69.77 percent and 40.38 percent respectively. On the other hand, there was a minor decline in the percentage of Boeckmans identifying as White, falling from 98.02 percent to 97.16 percent. A new presence of Hispanic individuals was registered in 2010, while the proportion of American Indian and Alaskan Native dropped to zero. There have been no recorded Boeckmans identifying as Black in either census year.

	2000	2010	Change
White	98.02%	97.16%	-0.88%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.43%	0.73%	69.77%
Two or More Races	0.52%	0.73%	40.38%
Hispanic	0%	0.73%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.6%	0%	0%