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    The surname Brinks

    A surname, carried by 1,196 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B652

    Brinks: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brinks #21,750, 1,196 people Brinks: #21,750 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brinks #21,750, 1,196 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brinks is more common than 86.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,196 people named Brinks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,128.

    #21,750
    rank among US surnames
    1,196
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #21,565)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,750Celli1,196258,148
    #21,759Finnigan1,195258,364

    Who is named Brinks

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

    95% of people named Brinks identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brinks

    Brinks has the Soundex code B652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B652.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brinks?
    1,196 people in the United States had the surname Brinks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,148 Americans. It ranked 21,750th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brinks?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brinks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Brinks getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,128 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,196 in 2010, up 6.0%.