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The BROWNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,109 1563 0.008 78
United States (1880 census) 2,172 2776 0.004 43
Change since 1880 +18937 +1213 +0.004 +35
Other Countries
Australia 4,723 309 0.029 289
United Kingdom 12,780 461 0.028 278
Top States for BROWNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,642 610 0.014 139
California 2,212 1446 0.007 65
Florida 1,629 1230 0.010 102
Texas 1,067 2189 0.005 51
New Jersey 1,052 793 0.013 125
Top States for BROWNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 123 468 0.022 215
Massachusetts 972 870 0.015 153
New York 2,642 610 0.014 139
Maine 177 1365 0.014 139
New Hampshire 171 1093 0.014 138

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

Classification and Origin of BROWNE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 490 2.32
White (Hispanic) 452 2.14
Asian/Pacific 186 0.88
Native American/Alaskan 112 0.53
White (Caucasian) 15,032 71.21
Black/African American 4,840 22.93

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

Meaning of BROWNE in historical publications

BROWN. BROWNE. One of the

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 BROWNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROWNE.

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 BROWNE

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