Booms

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in German: genitive singular of Boom

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 35K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 71K
  • USUnited States1 in 559K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

595 people, 2010

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

local variant of Brabantian spoken in and near the Flemish town of Boom

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Booms is read(measured from records)

Booms is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English65%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Booms in English.

  • German10%

    genitive singular of Boom

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

  • Dutch7.7%

    local variant of Brabantian spoken in and near the Flemish town of Boom

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

  • French6.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Booms in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Booms 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 Booms is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5951 in 559K646Booms5
NL Netherlands4901 in 35K490Booms4
BE Belgium1651 in 71K165Booms4
FR France——17Booms66
IN India——16——

595 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)

Booms is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Vietnamese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam

    Also written Boom'S

29 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 Booms,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Booms
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020646#37,126
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010595#37,442
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000531#39,052
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007490#3,968
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008165#10,127
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199117—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—16#18,305
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19519—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Booms come from?
local variant of Brabantian spoken in and near the Flemish town of Boom Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Booms?
A machine transcription gives /buːmz/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Booms mean?
In German, genitive singular of Boom
In which country does Booms have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 595 people named Booms, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled booms.
Where is Booms most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Booms is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Booms?
In the United States, the national register counted 595 people named Booms in 2010, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.

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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, “Booms”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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