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The BRYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,716 15640 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 403 11420 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1313 -4220 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 119 12175 0.001 7
United Kingdom 455 9471 0.001 10
Top States for BRYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 190 8694 0.002 15
Texas 139 12909 0.001 7
Florida 129 14834 0.001 8
Michigan 128 10857 0.001 13
Maine 94 2497 0.007 74
Top States for BRYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 94 2497 0.007 74
New Hampshire 57 3389 0.005 46
Rhode Island 28 5964 0.003 27
Vermont 14 6521 0.002 23
Montana 17 9431 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of BRYER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 108 6.29
White (Hispanic) 23 1.34
Mixed Race 21 1.22
White (Caucasian) 1,558 90.79
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BRYER in historical publications

BRYER. The same as Brewer, in the local sense.

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 BRYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRYER.

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 BRYER

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