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    The surname Brier

    A surname, carried by 1,813 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B660

    Brier: #16,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brier #16,012, 1,813 people Brier: #16,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brier #16,012, 1,813 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brier is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,813 people named Brier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,295 Americans. That is down 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,909.

    #16,012
    rank among US surnames
    1,813
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5%
    change since 2000 (was #14,383)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,004Portnoy1,814170,202
    #16,012Hysell1,813170,295
    #16,018Provencio1,812170,389

    Who is named Brier

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

    90% of people named Brier identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • 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 Brier

    Brier has the Soundex code B660, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B660.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brier?
    1,813 people in the United States had the surname Brier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,295 Americans. It ranked 16,012th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brier?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Brier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brier getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,909 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,813 in 2010, down 5.0%.