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The BRITT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 30,200 1059 0.011 112
United States (1880 census) 5,193 1167 0.01 104
Change since 1880 +25007 +108 +0.001 +8
Other Countries
Australia 592 2739 0.004 36
United Kingdom 630 7492 0.001 14
Top States for BRITT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 4,776 210 0.059 593
Georgia 1,998 548 0.024 244
Florida 1,951 1105 0.012 122
Texas 1,618 1598 0.008 78
Virginia 1,606 563 0.023 227
Top States for BRITT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 4,776 210 0.059 593
South Carolina 1,583 405 0.039 395
Mississippi 1,104 404 0.039 388
Tennessee 1,443 634 0.025 254
Georgia 1,998 548 0.024 244

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

Classification and Origin of BRITT

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 BRITT 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 BRITT 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 BRITT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 417 1.38
Mixed Race 402 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 214 0.71
Asian/Pacific 106 0.35
White (Caucasian) 22,880 75.76
Black/African American 6,179 20.46

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

Meaning of BRITT in historical publications

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

Similar names to BRITT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRITT.

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 BRITT

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