The surname Brakefield
An English place surname, carried by 1,480 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B621
Origin
English origin
Topographic surname, from Old English bracu (“brake, thicket”) + feld (“field”).
Brakefield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,480 people named Brakefield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,612 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,393.
Who is named Brakefield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Brakefield identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Brakefield
Brakefield has the Soundex code B621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B621.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Brakefield come from?
- Topographic surname, from Old English bracu (“brake, thicket”) + feld (“field”).
- How common is the surname Brakefield?
- 1,480 people in the United States had the surname Brakefield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,612 Americans. It ranked 18,609th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brakefield?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Brakefield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Brakefield?
- Brakefield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Brakefield getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,393 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,480 in 2010, up 6.2%.