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    The surname Brass

    A surname, carried by 2,625 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

    Brass: #11,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brass #11,926, 2,625 people Brass: #11,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brass #11,926, 2,625 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brass is more common than 92.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,625 people named Brass in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,617 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,489.

    #11,926
    rank among US surnames
    2,625
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #11,578)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,919Karsten2,627117,528
    #11,925Festa2,626117,573
    #11,926Brass2,625117,617
    #11,928Polansky2,624117,662
    #11,932Kamal2,623117,707
    #11,933Ballance2,622117,752

    Who is named Brass

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

    74% of people named Brass identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brass

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brass?
    2,625 people in the United States had the surname Brass in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,617 Americans. It ranked 11,926th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brass?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Brass identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brass getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,625 in 2010, up 5.5%.