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The BRACEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,119 6162 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 598 8356 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +4521 +2194 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 132 11134 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,324 4161 0.003 29
Top States for BRACEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 507 971 0.018 178
South Carolina 478 1512 0.012 119
Michigan 370 3524 0.004 37
Virginia 341 2833 0.005 48
North Carolina 336 3358 0.004 42
Top States for BRACEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 507 971 0.018 178
South Carolina 478 1512 0.012 119
Washington DC 38 1750 0.007 66
Virginia 341 2833 0.005 48
Tennessee 267 3151 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of BRACEY

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 BRACEY 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 BRACEY 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 BRACEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 76 1.48
White (Hispanic) 48 0.94
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.29
Asian/Pacific 9 0.18
Black/African American 2,988 58.37
White (Caucasian) 1,983 38.74

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

Meaning of BRACEY in historical publications

BRACEY. Perhaps from Breci, or from Brecei in Normandj'.

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 BRACEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRACEY.

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 BRACEY

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