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    The surname Brasfield

    A surname, carried by 1,919 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B621

    Brasfield: #15,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brasfield #15,296, 1,919 people Brasfield: #15,296 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brasfield #15,296, 1,919 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brasfield is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,919 people named Brasfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,938.

    #15,296
    rank among US surnames
    1,919
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #14,208)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,289Jenkinson1,920160,805
    #15,296Brasfield1,919160,889
    #15,303Canto1,918160,973

    Who is named Brasfield

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

    81% of people named Brasfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 15%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brasfield

    Brasfield has the Soundex code B621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B621.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brasfield?
    1,919 people in the United States had the surname Brasfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. It ranked 15,296th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brasfield?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Brasfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brasfield getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,938 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,919 in 2010, down 1.0%.