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The BRUNT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,779 15194 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 464 10273 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1315 -4921 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 331 4763 0.002 20
United Kingdom 3,002 2063 0.007 65
Top States for BRUNT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 148 2464 0.005 52
California 126 18835 0.000 4
Michigan 122 10301 0.001 12
Florida 120 14587 0.001 8
Illinois 99 13423 0.001 8
Top States for BRUNT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 148 2464 0.005 52
New Hampshire 33 4996 0.003 27
Idaho 33 5621 0.003 26
Nebraska 30 8968 0.002 18
New Mexico 27 5732 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of BRUNT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 370 20.8
White (Hispanic) 42 2.36
Asian/Pacific 29 1.63
Mixed Race 25 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.51
White (Caucasian) 1,304 73.3

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

Meaning of BRUNT in historical publications

BRUNT. Probably a corruption of Brent, places so called in cos. Somerset, Devon, Suffolk, &c.

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 BRUNT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRUNT.

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 BRUNT

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