The BROOME surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,749	3353	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	449	10531	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+9300	+7178	+0.003	+27
Other Countries
Australia	524	3067	0.003	32
United Kingdom	3,534	1772	0.008	77

Top States for BROOME by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,260	963	0.016	157
South Carolina	1,153	560	0.029	287
Georgia	1,089	999	0.013	133
Mississippi	919	473	0.032	323
Florida	615	3387	0.004	38
Top States for BROOME by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	919	473	0.032	323
South Carolina	1,153	560	0.029	287
North Carolina	1,260	963	0.016	157
Georgia	1,089	999	0.013	133
Tennessee	429	2011	0.008	75

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BROOME

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	146	1.5
White (Hispanic)	115	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	66	0.68
Asian/Pacific	30	0.31
White (Caucasian)	7,938	81.42
Black/African American	1,454	14.91

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

Similar names to BROOME

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOME.

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.