The surname Brenton
A place surname, carried by 1,999 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B653 Also a first name
Origin
A habitational surname from Old English.
Brenton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,999 people named Brenton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,450 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,881.
Who is named Brenton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Brenton identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Brenton
Brenton has the Soundex code B653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B653.
Questions
- How common is the surname Brenton?
- 1,999 people in the United States had the surname Brenton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,450 Americans. It ranked 14,827th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brenton?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Brenton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Brenton?
- Brenton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Brenton getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,881 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,999 in 2010, up 6.3%.
- Is Brenton also a first name?
- Yes. Brenton is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.