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    The surname Brister

    A surname, carried by 6,123 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B623

    Brister: #5,669 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brister #5,669, 6,123 people Brister: #5,669 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brister #5,669, 6,123 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brister is more common than 96.5% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Bristow.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,123 people named Brister in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 50,424 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,386.

    #5,669
    rank among US surnames
    6,123
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #5,888)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,664Arvizu6,13050,366
    #5,666Coakley6,12750,391
    #5,668Ismail6,12650,399
    #5,669Brister6,12350,424
    #5,671Elmer6,11950,457
    #5,672Shaughnessy6,11750,473

    Who is named Brister

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

    70% of people named Brister identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Brister

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brister come from?
    Variant of Bristow.
    How common is the surname Brister?
    6,123 people in the United States had the surname Brister in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,424 Americans. It ranked 5,669th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brister?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Brister identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brister getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,386 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,123 in 2010, up 14%.