How common is the surname Brame?

2,911 people in the United States had the surname Brame in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,062 Americans. It ranked 10,935th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Brame getting more or less common?

More common. 2,712 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,911 in 2010, up 7.3%.

The surname Brame

A French surname, carried by 2,911 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brame is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

French origin

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Bream. * As a French surname, of Occitan origin, from Old French brame (“cry, howl”), itself a Germanic borrowing from Frankish *brammjan (“to roar”).

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,911 people named Brame in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,062 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,712.

#10,935

rank among US surnames

2,911

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+7.3%

change since 2000 (was #10,797)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,931	Cordon	2,912	106,025
#10,935	Furey	2,911	106,062
#10,942	McKinnie	2,910	106,098

Who is named Brame

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

68% of people named Brame identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 68%
Black (not Hispanic) 26%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brame

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

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Brame come from?: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Bream. * As a French surname, of Occitan origin, from Old French brame (“cry, howl”), itself a Germanic borrowing from Frankish *brammjan (“to roar”).
How common is the surname Brame?: 2,911 people in the United States had the surname Brame in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,062 Americans. It ranked 10,935th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brame?: In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Brame identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Brame getting more or less common?: More common. 2,712 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,911 in 2010, up 7.3%.