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The BRANDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,338 18883 0 5
United States (1880 census) 206 18891 0 4
Change since 1880 +1132 +8 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 49 25721 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BRANDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 147 19992 0.000 4
Illinois 115 14404 0.001 9
Ohio 100 16002 0.001 9
Texas 86 20571 0.000 4
Florida 76 26231 0.000 5
Top States for BRANDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 60 5352 0.002 21
New Hampshire 15 12464 0.001 12
Missouri 67 12381 0.001 12
Indiana 61 13577 0.001 10
Alabama 44 9334 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of BRANDY

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

Ethnic distribution of BRANDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 649 48.51
Black/African American 583 43.57
White (Hispanic) 46 3.44
Mixed Race 36 2.69
Native American/Alaskan 16 1.2
Asian/Pacific 8 0.6

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

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

Meaning of BRANDY in historical publications

BRANDY. A Scandinavian name, Bravdi, " one having a brand or sword." Ferguson.

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 BRANDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRANDY.

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 BRANDY

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