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The surname Broadhead

A surname, carried by 2,482 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B633

Broadhead: #12,491 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Broadhead #12,491, 2,482 people Broadhead: #12,491 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Broadhead #12,491, 2,482 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Broadhead is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,482 people named Broadhead in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,394 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,434.

#12,491
rank among US surnames
2,482
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+2%
change since 2000 (was #11,788)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,482Bade2,487124,144
#12,485Lowrie2,485124,244
#12,488Tuma2,484124,294
#12,491Laplant2,482124,394
#12,496Justiniano2,481124,444
#12,500Howey2,480124,494

Who is named Broadhead

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

92% of people named Broadhead identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Broadhead

Broadhead has the Soundex code B633, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B633.

Questions

How common is the surname Broadhead?
2,482 people in the United States had the surname Broadhead in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,394 Americans. It ranked 12,491st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Broadhead?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Broadhead identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Broadhead getting more or less common?
More common. 2,434 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,482 in 2010, up 2.0%.