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    The surname Brindle

    An English place surname, carried by 2,351 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B653

    Brindle: #13,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brindle #13,057, 2,351 people Brindle: #13,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brindle #13,057, 2,351 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brindle is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English burna (“stream, brook”) + hyll (“hill”). The surname could either derive from the village in England or be an Americanized spelling of South German Brindl and Bründl.

    Brindle is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 2,351 people named Brindle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,325 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,137.

    #13,057
    rank among US surnames
    2,351
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10%
    change since 2000 (was #13,119)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,049Atkin2,353131,214
    #13,053Class2,352131,269
    #13,057Vowell2,351131,325
    #13,065Crownover2,350131,381

    Who is named Brindle

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

    93% of people named Brindle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brindle

    Brindle has the Soundex code B653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B653.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brindle come from?
    From Old English burna (“stream, brook”) + hyll (“hill”). The surname could either derive from the village in England or be an Americanized spelling of South German Brindl and Bründl.
    How common is the surname Brindle?
    2,351 people in the United States had the surname Brindle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,325 Americans. It ranked 13,057th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brindle?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Brindle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Brindle?
    Brindle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Brindle getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,137 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,351 in 2010, up 10%.