The BRENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,436	4408	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	1,851	3193	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+5585	-1215	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	361	4392	0.002	22
United Kingdom	1,142	4723	0.002	25

Top States for BRENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	693	4301	0.002	20
Texas	593	3825	0.003	28
Mississippi	575	791	0.020	202
Virginia	415	2236	0.006	59
Illinois	404	3242	0.003	33
Top States for BRENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	575	791	0.020	202
Washington DC	42	1454	0.007	73
Virginia	415	2236	0.006	59
Louisiana	209	2822	0.005	47
Tennessee	265	3017	0.005	47

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BRENT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	160	2.15
White (Hispanic)	105	1.41
Asian/Pacific	47	0.63
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.54
White (Caucasian)	4,703	63.25
Black/African American	2,381	32.02

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

Similar names to BRENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRENT.

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.