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The BREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,221 12753 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 455 10429 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1766 -2324 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 3 193935 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BREY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 559 1197 0.010 104
Pennsylvania 168 9369 0.001 14
Michigan 167 7851 0.002 17
Minnesota 146 5131 0.003 30
Florida 134 13784 0.001 8
Top States for BREY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 559 1197 0.010 104
Minnesota 146 5131 0.003 30
Montana 24 6050 0.003 27
North Dakota 15 7787 0.002 23
Kentucky 89 5013 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 BREY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BREY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BREY in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BREY by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BREY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BREY surname.

Ethnic distribution of BREY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 70 3.15
White (Hispanic) 59 2.66
Mixed Race 29 1.31
Asian/Pacific 19 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.86
White (Caucasian) 2,025 91.18

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

BREY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BREY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BREY.

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 BREY

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