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    The surname Broadnax

    A surname, carried by 4,983 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B635

    Broadnax: #6,766 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Broadnax #6,766, 4,983 people Broadnax: #6,766 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Broadnax #6,766, 4,983 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Broadnax is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,983 people named Broadnax in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 61,960 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,335.

    #6,766
    rank among US surnames
    4,983
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.9%
    change since 2000 (was #7,106)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,763Cate4,98761,910
    #6,764Toms4,98661,922
    #6,765Crumpton4,98561,935
    #6,766Viveros4,98361,960
    #6,769Musgrave4,98261,972

    Who is named Broadnax

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

    89% of people named Broadnax identified as Black (not Hispanic), 4.7% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 89%
    • White (not Hispanic) 4.7%
    • Two or more races 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Broadnax

    Broadnax has the Soundex code B635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B635.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Broadnax?
    4,983 people in the United States had the surname Broadnax in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 61,960 Americans. It ranked 6,766th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Broadnax?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Broadnax identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Broadnax getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,335 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,983 in 2010, up 15%.