# Bro (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bro/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 586 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,899 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 526,870 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (558 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a North Germanic/Scandinavian topographic surname from either Danish, Norwegian or Swedish bro (“bridge”). * As a French surname, variant of Brault and Breaux. * As an Irish surname, possibly a variant of Broe, Brew.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bro in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Similar surnames

Barrow, Burrow, Brough, Biro, Brow, Baro, Berroa, Bero, Bora, Berry, Bauer, Boyer.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.