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The BREEZE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,121 13201 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 450 10512 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1671 -2689 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 281 5516 0.002 17
United Kingdom 3,029 2047 0.007 66
Top States for BREEZE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 229 6287 0.002 20
North Carolina 175 5031 0.002 22
Kentucky 154 3325 0.004 38
Florida 151 12422 0.001 9
Illinois 141 9796 0.001 11
Top States for BREEZE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 107 2799 0.005 48
Kentucky 154 3325 0.004 38
North Carolina 175 5031 0.002 22
Ohio 229 6287 0.002 20
Oklahoma 65 6611 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of BREEZE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 215 10.14
White (Hispanic) 41 1.93
Mixed Race 24 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.71
Asian/Pacific 10 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,816 85.62

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

Meaning of BREEZE in historical publications

BREEZE. Corresponds with Bresi, a Northman name in the Landnamabok, by metathesis for bersi, 0. Norse, a bear. Ferguson. BREEZE. Ab Rhys, Ap Roes. Welsh.

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 BREEZE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BREEZE.

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 BREEZE

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