How common is the surname Braithwaite?

3,898 people in the United States had the surname Braithwaite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,206 Americans. It ranked 8,470th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Braithwaite?

Kenneth Braithwaite, American ambassador and retired admiral, followed by Darren Braithwaite.

Where is the surname Braithwaite most common?

Wikidata records people named Braithwaite in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Is the surname Braithwaite getting more or less common?

More common. 3,402 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,898 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Braithwaite

A Norse place surname, carried by 3,898 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B633

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Braithwaite is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

From Old Norse breiðr (“broad”) + þveit (“clearing”).

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

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,898 people named Braithwaite in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,206 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,402.

#8,470

rank among US surnames

3,898

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+14.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,856)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,464	Grimmett	3,903	79,105
#8,467	Vineyard	3,901	79,145
#8,469	Patti	3,899	79,186
#8,470	Braithwaite	3,898	79,206
#8,472	Burlingame	3,897	79,226
#8,473	Lease	3,896	79,247
#8,475	Rondeau	3,894	79,288

Who is named Braithwaite

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

62% of people named Braithwaite identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 62%
Black (not Hispanic) 31%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Two or more races 3.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Braithwaites

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kenneth Braithwaite
American ambassador and retired admiral, born 1960
Darren Braithwaite
British athlete, born 1969
William Stanley Braithwaite
American writer, poet and literary critic (1878-1962)
Daryl Braithwaite
Australian singer, born 1949

Notable Braithwaites come mostly from the United States (2), the United Kingdom (1) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Braithwaite

Brathwaite

Braithwaite has the Soundex code B633, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B633.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Braithwaite come from?: From Old Norse breiðr (“broad”) + þveit (“clearing”).
How common is the surname Braithwaite?: 3,898 people in the United States had the surname Braithwaite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,206 Americans. It ranked 8,470th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Braithwaite?: In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Braithwaite identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Braithwaite?: Kenneth Braithwaite, American ambassador and retired admiral, followed by Darren Braithwaite.
Where is the surname Braithwaite most common?: Wikidata records people named Braithwaite in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
What type of surname is Braithwaite?: Braithwaite is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Braithwaite getting more or less common?: More common. 3,402 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,898 in 2010, up 15%.