Boomer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Something that makes a booming sound

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bumɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Boomer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 140K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 173K
  • CACanada≈1 in 118K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,368 people, 2010

Sources
271 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Something that makes a booming sound.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boomer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Boomer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,3681 in 140K2.4KBoomer271
GB United Kingdom≈380 est.≈1 in 173K—Boomer91
CA Canada≈320 est.≈1 in 118K—Boomer77
IT Italy≈180 est.≈1 in 345K—Boomer6
AU Australia≈110 est.≈1 in 242K—Boomer36
SG Singapore≈30 est.≈1 in 208K—Boomer2

2,368 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Boomer is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Also written Boeoemer, Böömer

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Palestine

    Also written Böomer

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Boomer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, a baby boomer, an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, a baby boomer, stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned ideas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, boomer, baby boomer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000George B. Boomer, b. 1832George Boomer, b. 1862Percy Boomer, b. 1885Jørgine Boomer, b. 1887Boomer, b. 1925Walter E. Boomer, b. 1938Garth Boomer, b. 1940Harry Boomer, b. 1953Linwood Boomer, b. 1955

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Boomer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,968
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.1K#13,149
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202K#14,366
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Boomer mean, and where does it come from?
Something that makes a booming sound. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Boomer?
A machine transcription gives /bumɚ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Boomer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Boomer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boomer.
How common is the name Boomer?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,368 people named Boomer in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boomer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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