How common is the surname Branum?

2,878 people in the United States had the surname Branum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,278 Americans. It ranked 11,047th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Branum?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Branum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Branum getting more or less common?

More common. 2,788 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,878 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Branum

A surname, carried by 2,878 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B655

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Branum is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,878 people named Branum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,278 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,788.

#11,047

rank among US surnames

2,878

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #10,557)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,040	Bruder	2,880	107,203
#11,044	Rickett	2,879	107,241
#11,047	Branum	2,878	107,278
#11,051	Dabrowski	2,877	107,315
#11,054	Béres	2,876	107,352

Who is named Branum

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

91% of people named Branum identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Branum

Branum has the Soundex code B655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B655.

Questions

How common is the surname Branum?: 2,878 people in the United States had the surname Branum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,278 Americans. It ranked 11,047th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Branum?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Branum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Branum getting more or less common?: More common. 2,788 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,878 in 2010, up 3.2%.