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The BROTHERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 358 54020 0 1
United States (1880 census) 102 31154 0 2
Change since 1880 +256 -22866 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 93 15159 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BROTHERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 91 2201 0.004 41
Iowa 42 7358 0.001 14
New York 22 52322 0.000 1
California 20 68579 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 18 48591 0.000 1
Top States for BROTHERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 91 2201 0.004 41
Iowa 42 7358 0.001 14
Nevada 15 10127 0.001 8
Idaho 6 16523 0.000 5
Kansas 9 20705 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of BROTHERSON

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

Ethnic distribution of BROTHERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 264 73.74
Black/African American 77 21.51
White (Hispanic) 8 2.23
Mixed Race 7 1.96
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BROTHERSON in historical publications

BROTHERSON. See Brother. Also like the 0. Norse, hrochirson, a nephew.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BROTHERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROTHERSON.

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 BROTHERSON

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