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    The surname Brasher

    A French surname, carried by 6,634 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B626

    Brasher: #5,261 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brasher #5,261, 6,634 people Brasher: #5,261 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brasher #5,261, 6,634 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brasher is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from Old French.

    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 6,634 people named Brasher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,540 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,337.

    #5,261
    rank among US surnames
    6,634
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #5,082)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,257Pitre6,63746,519
    #5,258Nazario6,63646,526
    #5,259Huebner6,63546,533
    #5,261Brasher6,63446,540
    #5,262Wessel6,63046,568

    Who is named Brasher

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

    90% of people named Brasher identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • 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 Brasher

    Brasher has the Soundex code B626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B626.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brasher come from?
    Brasher is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Brasher?
    6,634 people in the United States had the surname Brasher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,540 Americans. It ranked 5,261st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brasher?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Brasher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brasher getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,337 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,634 in 2010, up 4.7%.