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The BROCKWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,765 6559 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 2,229 2714 0.004 45
Change since 1880 +2536 -3845 -0.002 -27
Other Countries
Australia 112 12949 0.001 7
United Kingdom 640 7414 0.001 14
Top States for BROCKWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 616 3045 0.003 32
Michigan 431 2603 0.004 43
California 329 7967 0.001 10
Texas 294 6422 0.001 14
Florida 275 6909 0.002 17
Top States for BROCKWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 49 2473 0.005 54
Maine 67 2975 0.005 53
Vermont 29 3260 0.005 48
Iowa 131 3060 0.004 45
Michigan 431 2603 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of BROCKWAY

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 BROCKWAY 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 BROCKWAY 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 BROCKWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 82 1.72
Mixed Race 56 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.61
Asian/Pacific 23 0.48
Black/African American 14 0.29
White (Caucasian) 4,561 95.72

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

Meaning of BROCKWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BROCKWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROCKWAY.

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 BROCKWAY

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