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    The surname Brehmer

    A surname, carried by 1,646 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B656

    Brehmer: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brehmer #17,202, 1,646 people Brehmer: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brehmer #17,202, 1,646 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brehmer is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,646 people named Brehmer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,560.

    #17,202
    rank among US surnames
    1,646
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,838)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,193Vancleve1,647187,459
    #17,202Entrekin1,646187,573

    Who is named Brehmer

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

    96% of people named Brehmer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as two or more races and 1.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brehmer

    Brehmer 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 Brehmer?
    1,646 people in the United States had the surname Brehmer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. It ranked 17,202nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brehmer?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Brehmer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Brehmer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,560 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,646 in 2010, up 5.5%.