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The BRENNEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,285 19455 0 5
United States (1880 census) 1,776 3324 0.004 36
Change since 1880 -491 -16131 +N/A -31
Other Countries
Australia 98 14537 0.001 6
United Kingdom 204 16246 0 4
Top States for BRENNEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 229 7044 0.002 19
New York 173 11707 0.001 9
Florida 130 14342 0.001 8
California 97 25003 0.000 3
Ohio 78 17335 0.001 7
Top States for BRENNEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 229 7044 0.002 19
Idaho 16 11061 0.001 12
Alaska 6 16807 0.001 10
New York 173 11707 0.001 9
Florida 130 14342 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of BRENNEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRENNEN 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 BRENNEN 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 BRENNEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 113 8.79
White (Hispanic) 26 2.02
Mixed Race 16 1.25
Asian/Pacific 12 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.78
White (Caucasian) 1,108 86.23

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

Meaning of BRENNEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BRENNEN.

Similar names to BRENNEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRENNEN.

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 BRENNEN

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