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The BROWNLIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 501 41060 0 2
United States (1880 census) 115 28615 0 2
Change since 1880 +386 -12445 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 417 3771 0.003 26
United Kingdom 1,623 3508 0.004 35
Top States for BROWNLIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 71 27879 0.000 2
Michigan 56 19956 0.001 6
Florida 44 30927 0.000 3
New York 34 45028 0.000 2
New Jersey 33 26022 0.000 4
Top States for BROWNLIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 12 10571 0.001 10
Arizona 29 15837 0.001 6
Michigan 56 19956 0.001 6
New Jersey 33 26022 0.000 4
Oregon 12 27280 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of BROWNLIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 478 95.41
Mixed Race 9 1.8
Asian/Pacific 8 1.6
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BROWNLIE in historical publications

BROWNLIE. BROWNLY. A place in CO. Kincardine.

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 BROWNLIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROWNLIE.

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 BROWNLIE

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