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The BRODY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,494 4966 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 468 10193 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +6026 +5227 +0.001 +15
Other Countries
Australia 167 8860 0.001 10
United Kingdom 185 17205 0 4
Top States for BRODY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,105 1484 0.006 58
California 785 3461 0.002 23
Florida 587 3165 0.004 37
New Jersey 538 1511 0.006 64
Pennsylvania 494 2793 0.004 40
Top States for BRODY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 538 1511 0.006 64
Connecticut 210 1896 0.006 62
New York 1,105 1484 0.006 58
Washington DC 25 2137 0.004 44
Pennsylvania 494 2793 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of BRODY

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 BRODY 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 BRODY 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 BRODY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 329 5.07
Mixed Race 102 1.57
White (Hispanic) 90 1.39
Asian/Pacific 42 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.23
White (Caucasian) 5,916 91.1

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

Meaning of BRODY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BRODY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRODY.

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 BRODY

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