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

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 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.

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.