The surname Brimhall
An English surname, carried by 1,919 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B654
Origin
English origin
Variant of Bramhall, itself Old English brōm (“broom”) + healh (“corner, angle, nook”).
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,919 people named Brimhall in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,633.
Who is named Brimhall
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Brimhall identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Brimhall has the Soundex code B654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B654.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Brimhall come from?
- Variant of Bramhall, itself Old English brōm (“broom”) + healh (“corner, angle, nook”).
- How common is the surname Brimhall?
- 1,919 people in the United States had the surname Brimhall in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. It ranked 15,296th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brimhall?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brimhall identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Brimhall getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,633 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,919 in 2010, up 18%.