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The BRACE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,861 6446 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,503 3835 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3358 -2611 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 279 5561 0.002 17
United Kingdom 2,682 2316 0.006 58
Top States for BRACE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 436 4668 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 425 3784 0.003 35
Michigan 380 3312 0.004 38
California 362 7896 0.001 11
Florida 230 8640 0.001 14
Top States for BRACE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 168 604 0.028 276
New Hampshire 53 3504 0.004 43
Michigan 380 3312 0.004 38
Washington DC 20 3043 0.003 35
Pennsylvania 425 3784 0.003 35

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

Classification and Origin of BRACE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 375 7.71
White (Hispanic) 98 2.02
Mixed Race 79 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.66
Asian/Pacific 19 0.39
White (Caucasian) 4,258 87.6

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

Meaning of BRACE in historical publications

BRACE. A parish in co. Salop.

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 BRACE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRACE.

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 BRACE

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