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The BREESE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,060 9749 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 1,030 5322 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +2030 -4427 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 162 9169 0.001 10
United Kingdom 757 6528 0.002 16
Top States for BREESE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 323 8514 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 265 5882 0.002 22
New York 219 8991 0.001 12
Illinois 193 6940 0.002 16
Ohio 184 7526 0.002 16
Top States for BREESE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 119 3617 0.004 41
Alaska 15 6312 0.002 24
Kansas 61 5582 0.002 23
Oregon 76 5810 0.002 22
Wisconsin 117 7416 0.002 22

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BREESE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BREESE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BREESE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BREESE by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BREESE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BREESE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BREESE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BREESE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 53 1.73
Black/African American 41 1.34
Mixed Race 41 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.39
Asian/Pacific 11 0.36
White (Caucasian) 2,902 94.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BREESE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BREESE in historical publications

(origin: Welsh.) A contraction of Ap Reese, the son of Reese, or Rice (which see); so Bevan from Ap Evan, Brice from Ap Rice, etc. Brys, Welsh, agility, quickness; Bresse, local, a small territory in Burgundy, France.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to BREESE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BREESE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BREESE

The following words are slight variants of BREESE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.