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    The surname Brash

    A nickname surname, carried by 579 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brash is more common than 76.4% of them.

    Origin

    Two main origins: * Scottish surname; probably from brash, a nickname for an impetuous person. * Americanized spelling of German Braasch.

    Brash is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 579 people named Brash in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 533,239 Americans. That is down 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 624.

    #38,265
    rank among US surnames
    579
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.2%
    change since 2000 (was #34,342)

    Who is named Brash

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

    83% of people named Brash identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 4.0%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brash

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brash come from?
    Two main origins: * Scottish surname; probably from brash, a nickname for an impetuous person. * Americanized spelling of German Braasch.
    How common is the surname Brash?
    579 people in the United States had the surname Brash in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 533,239 Americans. It ranked 38,265th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brash?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Brash identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Brash?
    Brash is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Brash getting more or less common?
    Less common. 624 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 579 in 2010, down 7.2%.