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    The surname Brissette

    A French surname, carried by 2,203 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B623

    Brissette: #13,737 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brissette #13,737, 2,203 people Brissette: #13,737 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brissette #13,737, 2,203 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brissette is more common than 91.5% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Borrowed from French Brissette.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,203 people named Brissette in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,148 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,677.

    #13,737
    rank among US surnames
    2,203
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +31.4%
    change since 2000 (was #15,921)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,736Wasilewski2,204140,084
    #13,737Brunetti2,203140,148
    #13,741Willits2,202140,211
    #13,746Beaird2,201140,275

    Who is named Brissette

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

    85% of people named Brissette identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.0%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Brissett

    Surnames that sound like Brissette

    Brissette has the Soundex code B623, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B623.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brissette come from?
    Borrowed from French Brissette.
    How common is the surname Brissette?
    2,203 people in the United States had the surname Brissette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,148 Americans. It ranked 13,737th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brissette?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Brissette identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brissette getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,203 in 2010, up 31%.
    What are other spellings of Brissette?
    Brissett.