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The BROOKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,714 6621 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,235 4568 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +3479 -2053 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 1,504 1086 0.009 92
United Kingdom 5,072 1237 0.011 110
Top States for BROOKER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 641 3262 0.004 40
Ohio 394 3612 0.003 35
New York 356 5566 0.002 19
Georgia 339 2833 0.004 41
California 276 9706 0.001 8
Top States for BROOKER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 184 1372 0.014 144
South Carolina 211 2794 0.005 53
Georgia 339 2833 0.004 41
Vermont 25 3885 0.004 41
Florida 641 3262 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of BROOKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 643 13.64
White (Hispanic) 61 1.29
Mixed Race 60 1.27
Asian/Pacific 26 0.55
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.32
White (Caucasian) 3,909 82.92

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

Meaning of BROOKER in historical publications

BROOKER. See Brook, and the termination ER.

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 BROOKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOKER.

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 BROOKER

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