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The BROUGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 530 39111 0 2
United States (1880 census) 199 19411 0 4
Change since 1880 +331 -19700 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 259 5945 0.002 16
United Kingdom 441 9711 0.001 10
Top States for BROUGHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 60 33980 0.000 2
Michigan 57 20293 0.001 6
Colorado 35 14004 0.001 8
New York 35 46310 0.000 2
Washington 30 20997 0.001 5
Top States for BROUGHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 17 7696 0.001 13
Colorado 35 14004 0.001 8
Nebraska 12 18114 0.001 7
Michigan 57 20293 0.001 6
Washington 30 20997 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of BROUGHAM

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 BROUGHAM 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 BROUGHAM 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 BROUGHAM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 514 96.98
Mixed Race 6 1.13
White (Hispanic) 6 1.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of BROUGHAM in historical publications

(origin: Local) Originally Burgham. The village on a hill; a borough town. The name of a place in England.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to BROUGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROUGHAM.

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 BROUGHAM

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