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The BROAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,942 14187 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 603 8301 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1339 -5886 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,163 1417 0.007 71
United Kingdom 4,535 1381 0.01 99
Top States for BROAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 194 7899 0.002 16
California 183 13688 0.001 5
Florida 170 10848 0.001 11
Michigan 150 8406 0.002 15
New York 126 15154 0.001 7
Top States for BROAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 62 3217 0.005 49
Vermont 12 7061 0.002 20
Pennsylvania 194 7899 0.002 16
South Carolina 62 6470 0.002 15
Michigan 150 8406 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of BROAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 64 3.3
Black/African American 51 2.63
White (Hispanic) 34 1.75
Asian/Pacific 33 1.7
Native American/Alaskan 27 1.39
White (Caucasian) 1,733 89.24

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

Meaning of BROAD in historical publications

BROAD. This name which might at first sight appear to relate to breadth of back and shoulders— the "vidth" Avhich Mr. Tony Weller associates with "visdom" — i-eally refers to that part of a river which expands into a mere or lake. Le Brode, or The Broad, is a name which was given in ancient times to many such localities.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BROAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROAD.

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 BROAD

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