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The surname Brassfield

A surname, carried by 1,860 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B621

Brassfield: #15,687 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brassfield #15,687, 1,860 people Brassfield: #15,687 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brassfield #15,687, 1,860 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brassfield is more common than 90.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,860 people named Brassfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 165,992 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,865.

#15,687
rank among US surnames
1,860
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-0.3%
change since 2000 (was #14,628)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,681Bertolini1,861165,903
#15,687Cosenza1,860165,992
#15,692Milby1,859166,082

Who is named Brassfield

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

77% of people named Brassfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 77%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.9%
  • Two or more races 2.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brassfield

Brassfield 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 Brassfield?
1,860 people in the United States had the surname Brassfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 165,992 Americans. It ranked 15,687th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brassfield?
In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Brassfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Brassfield getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,865 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,860 in 2010, down 0.3%.