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The BRECHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,317 12305 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 531 9208 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1786 -3097 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 67 20051 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BRECHT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 281 1299 0.010 96
Pennsylvania 243 6578 0.002 20
Michigan 239 5302 0.002 24
California 182 14190 0.001 5
Ohio 143 9673 0.001 13
Top States for BRECHT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 281 1299 0.010 96
North Dakota 18 6415 0.003 28
Michigan 239 5302 0.002 24
Minnesota 118 6568 0.002 24
Pennsylvania 243 6578 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of BRECHT

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

Ethnic distribution of BRECHT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 42 1.81
Mixed Race 16 0.69
Asian/Pacific 10 0.43
White (Caucasian) 2,240 96.68
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BRECHT in historical publications

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

Similar names to BRECHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRECHT.

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 BRECHT

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