How common is the surname Brill?

9,215 people in the United States had the surname Brill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,505 Americans. It ranked 3,841st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Brill?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Brill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Brill?

Abraham Brill, American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948), followed by Steven Brill.

Where is the surname Brill most common?

Wikidata records people named Brill in the United States and Brazil.

Is the surname Brill getting more or less common?

More common. 9,069 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,215 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Brill

A patronymic surname, carried by 9,215 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brill is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".

Brill is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,215 people named Brill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,505 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,069.

#3,841

rank among US surnames

9,215

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #3,598)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,832	Sturm	9,242	33,407
#3,833	Reinhart	9,237	33,425
#3,834	McNutt	9,232	33,443
#3,835	Tu	9,230	33,450
#3,837	Galicia	9,229	33,454
#3,838	Javier	9,226	33,465
#3,839	Demers	9,225	33,468

Who is named Brill

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

94% of people named Brill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Brills

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Abraham Brill
American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948)
Steven Brill
American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, born 1962
Alice Brill
Brazilian photographer (1920-2013)
Nathan Edwin Brill
American physician (1860–1925)
Fran Brill
American actress, born 1946
Will Brill
American actor, born 1986

Notable Brills come mostly from the United States (5) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brill

Brill has the Soundex code B640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B640.

Questions

Where does the surname Brill come from?: * As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille…
How common is the surname Brill?: 9,215 people in the United States had the surname Brill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,505 Americans. It ranked 3,841st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brill?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Brill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Brill?: Abraham Brill, American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948), followed by Steven Brill.
Where is the surname Brill most common?: Wikidata records people named Brill in the United States and Brazil.
What type of surname is Brill?: Brill is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Brill getting more or less common?: More common. 9,069 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,215 in 2010, up 1.6%.