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    The surname Brine

    A surname, carried by 476 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

    Brine: #45,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Brine #45,026, 476 people Brine: #45,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Brine #45,026, 476 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brine is more common than 72.2% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Bruin. * As an English surname, possibly from Old English bryne (“burning”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 476 people named Brine in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 648,625 Americans. That is down 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 564.

    #45,026
    rank among US surnames
    476
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -15.6%
    change since 2000 (was #37,200)

    Who is named Brine

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

    93% of people named Brine identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brine

    Brine has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brine come from?
    * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Bruin. * As an English surname, possibly from Old English bryne (“burning”).
    How common is the surname Brine?
    476 people in the United States had the surname Brine in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 648,625 Americans. It ranked 45,026th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brine?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Brine identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Brine getting more or less common?
    Less common. 564 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 476 in 2010, down 16%.