The BROPHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,339	5077	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	2,300	2642	0.005	46
Change since 1880	+4039	-2435	-0.003	-22
Other Countries
Australia	603	2685	0.004	37
United Kingdom	1,670	3428	0.004	36

Top States for BROPHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	681	2117	0.006	55
New York	678	2707	0.004	36
New Jersey	486	1822	0.006	58
California	465	5831	0.001	14
Massachusetts	430	2007	0.007	68
Top States for BROPHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	47	2123	0.008	77
Massachusetts	430	2007	0.007	68
Connecticut	199	2143	0.006	58
New Jersey	486	1822	0.006	58
Alaska	36	2304	0.006	57

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

Classification and Origin of BROPHY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	101	1.59
Mixed Race	65	1.03
Asian/Pacific	26	0.41
Black/African American	21	0.33
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.17
White (Caucasian)	6,115	96.47

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

Similar names to BROPHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROPHY.

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.