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    The surname Brakke

    A Dutch surname, carried by 543 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

    Brakke: #40,313 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Brakke #40,313, 543 people Brakke: #40,313 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Brakke #40,313, 543 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brakke is more common than 75.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    * As a Norwegian surname Brække, variant of Brekke. * As a Dutch surname, from Middle Dutch bracke (“bloodhound”), from Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”).

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 543 people named Brakke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 568,592 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 538.

    #40,313
    rank among US surnames
    543
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #38,644)

    Who is named Brakke

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

    97% of people named Brakke identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brakke

    Brakke has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brakke come from?
    * As a Norwegian surname Brække, variant of Brekke. * As a Dutch surname, from Middle Dutch bracke (“bloodhound”), from Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”).
    How common is the surname Brakke?
    543 people in the United States had the surname Brakke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 568,592 Americans. It ranked 40,313th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brakke?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Brakke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Brakke getting more or less common?
    More common. 538 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 543 in 2010, up 0.9%.