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    The surname Brawner

    A surname, carried by 4,601 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B656

    Brawner: #7,247 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brawner #7,247, 4,601 people Brawner: #7,247 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brawner #7,247, 4,601 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brawner is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,601 people named Brawner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,104 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,143.

    #7,247
    rank among US surnames
    4,601
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,417)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,243Keough4,60567,046
    #7,245Adames4,60467,060
    #7,246Beltz4,60367,075
    #7,247Theodore4,60167,104
    #7,253Belden4,60067,119

    Who is named Brawner

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

    82% of people named Brawner identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • 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 Brawner

    Brawner has the Soundex code B656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B656.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brawner?
    4,601 people in the United States had the surname Brawner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,104 Americans. It ranked 7,247th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brawner?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Brawner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brawner getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,143 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,601 in 2010, up 11%.