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    The surname Brahm

    A surname, carried by 840 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

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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). Brahm is more common than 82.5% of them.

    Origin

    * As a German and Jewish surname, reduced from Abraham. * Also as a German surname, from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *brām (“gorse, bramble”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 840 people named Brahm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 367,554 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 870.

    #28,408
    rank among US surnames
    840
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #26,394)

    Who is named Brahm

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

    93% of people named Brahm identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • Two or more races 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brahm

    Brahm has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brahm come from?
    * As a German and Jewish surname, reduced from Abraham. * Also as a German surname, from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *brām (“gorse, bramble”).
    How common is the surname Brahm?
    840 people in the United States had the surname Brahm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 367,554 Americans. It ranked 28,408th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brahm?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Brahm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Brahm getting more or less common?
    Less common. 870 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 840 in 2010, down 3.4%.