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    The surname Brassington

    An English place surname, carried by 333 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B625

    Brassington: #60,505 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Brassington #60,505, 333 people Brassington: #60,505 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Brassington #60,505, 333 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brassington is more common than 62.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From an unattested Old English personal name *Brandsige + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).

    Brassington is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 333 people named Brassington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 927,164 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 333.

    #60,505
    rank among US surnames
    333
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #57,252)

    Who is named Brassington

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

    92% of people named Brassington identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as two or more races and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Two or more races 3.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Brasington

    Surnames that sound like Brassington

    Brassington has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brassington come from?
    From an unattested Old English personal name *Brandsige + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
    How common is the surname Brassington?
    333 people in the United States had the surname Brassington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 927,164 Americans. It ranked 60,505th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brassington?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Brassington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Brassington?
    Brassington is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Brassington getting more or less common?
    About as common. 333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 333 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.
    What are other spellings of Brassington?
    Brasington.