The BROOKING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,028	23167	0	4
United States (1880 census)	475	10089	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+553	-13078	+N/A	-6
Other Countries
Australia	259	5944	0.002	16
United Kingdom	662	7226	0.001	14

Top States for BROOKING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	111	7077	0.002	16
Indiana	106	7508	0.002	17
California	76	31543	0.000	2
Kentucky	75	5866	0.002	19
Texas	70	21719	0.000	3
Top States for BROOKING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	27	3746	0.004	43
Washington DC	16	3648	0.003	28
Delaware	20	7117	0.003	26
Kentucky	75	5866	0.002	19
South Dakota	14	9790	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of BROOKING

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 BROOKING 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 BROOKING 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 BROOKING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	897	87.26
Black/African American	100	9.73
Mixed Race	21	2.04
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.49
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to BROOKING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOKING.

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.