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The BROOKSHIRE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,263 6018 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 539 9090 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +4724 +3072 +0.001 +9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BROOKSHIRE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 830 1290 0.010 101
Texas 673 3407 0.003 32
North Carolina 613 1918 0.008 76
California 300 8926 0.001 9
South Carolina 276 2251 0.007 69
Top States for BROOKSHIRE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 830 1290 0.010 101
North Carolina 613 1918 0.008 76
South Carolina 276 2251 0.007 69
Oklahoma 170 2799 0.005 49
Tennessee 228 3347 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 BROOKSHIRE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BROOKSHIRE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BROOKSHIRE in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BROOKSHIRE by picking someone at random in Georgia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BROOKSHIRE

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

Ethnic distribution of BROOKSHIRE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 384 7.3
Mixed Race 69 1.31
White (Hispanic) 64 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.61
Asian/Pacific 15 0.29
White (Caucasian) 4,699 89.28

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

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

Meaning of BROOKSHIRE in historical publications

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

Similar names to BROOKSHIRE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOKSHIRE.

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 BROOKSHIRE

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