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    The surname Brau

    An occupational surname, carried by 520 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B600

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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). Brau is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    Two possible origins: * Borrowed from South German Bräu, an occupational surname from a shortened form of an agent noun denoting a brewer; * Borrowed from Catalan and southern French Brau, a nickname from Catalan brau (“brave, fierce”) or Occitan brau (“wild”).

    Brau is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 520 people named Brau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 459.

    #41,799
    rank among US surnames
    520
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.3%
    change since 2000 (was #44,192)

    Who is named Brau

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

    77% of people named Brau identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 21%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brau

    Brau has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brau come from?
    Two possible origins: * Borrowed from South German Bräu, an occupational surname from a shortened form of an agent noun denoting a brewer; * Borrowed from Catalan and southern French Brau, a nickname from Catalan brau (“brave, fierce”) or Occitan brau (“wild”).
    How common is the surname Brau?
    520 people in the United States had the surname Brau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. It ranked 41,799th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brau?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Brau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Brau?
    Brau is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Brau getting more or less common?
    More common. 459 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 520 in 2010, up 13%.