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    The surname Brea

    A Galician surname, carried by 1,428 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B600

    Brea: #19,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brea #19,062, 1,428 people Brea: #19,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brea #19,062, 1,428 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brea is more common than 88.3% of them.

    Origin

    Galician origin

    From Galician Brea. Compare Blea.

    One of 34 Galician surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,428 people named Brea in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,208 Americans. That is up 27% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,128.

    #19,062
    rank among US surnames
    1,428
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +26.6%
    change since 2000 (was #21,565)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,053Minder1,429216,057
    #19,062Cianci1,428216,208

    Who is named Brea

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

    82% of people named Brea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 9.9% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 82%
    • White (not Hispanic) 9.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.7%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brea

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

    Other Galician surnames

    All 34 Galician surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brea come from?
    From Galician Brea. Compare Blea.
    How common is the surname Brea?
    1,428 people in the United States had the surname Brea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,208 Americans. It ranked 19,062nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brea?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Brea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 9.9% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brea getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,128 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,428 in 2010, up 27%.