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    The surname Brackenbury

    A place surname, carried by 487 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex B625

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brackenbury is more common than 72.8% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational surname from any of several minor places in England, such as Brackenber, Brackenborough and Breckenbrough.

    Brackenbury is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 487 people named Brackenbury in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 633,974 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 465.

    #44,193
    rank among US surnames
    487
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #43,708)

    Who is named Brackenbury

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Brackenbury identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brackenbury

    Brackenbury has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brackenbury come from?
    Habitational surname from any of several minor places in England, such as Brackenber, Brackenborough and Breckenbrough.
    How common is the surname Brackenbury?
    487 people in the United States had the surname Brackenbury in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 633,974 Americans. It ranked 44,193rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brackenbury?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brackenbury identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Brackenbury?
    Brackenbury is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Brackenbury getting more or less common?
    More common. 465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 487 in 2010, up 4.7%.