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The BROKAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,395 8868 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 1,224 4600 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +2171 -4268 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BROKAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 518 2609 0.005 46
California 312 8380 0.001 9
Illinois 235 5401 0.002 19
New York 219 8497 0.001 12
Florida 199 9118 0.001 12
Top States for BROKAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 518 2609 0.005 46
Iowa 127 3148 0.004 43
Nebraska 54 4576 0.003 32
North Dakota 20 5408 0.003 31
Idaho 38 4668 0.003 29

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

Classification and Origin of BROKAW

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

Ethnic distribution of BROKAW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 54 1.59
Mixed Race 46 1.35
Black/African American 40 1.18
Asian/Pacific 19 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 14 0.41
White (Caucasian) 3,222 94.9

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

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

Meaning of BROKAW in historical publications

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

Similar names to BROKAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROKAW.

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 BROKAW

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