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The surname Brodeur

A French surname, carried by 4,053 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B636

Brodeur: #8,178 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brodeur #8,178, 4,053 people Brodeur: #8,178 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brodeur #8,178, 4,053 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brodeur is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

French origin

A surname from French.

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 4,053 people named Brodeur in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,177 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,910.

#8,178
rank among US surnames
4,053
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.7%
change since 2000 (was #7,854)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,173Crafton4,05676,121
#8,174Lark4,05576,139
#8,176Hazard4,05476,158
#8,178Stella4,05376,177
#8,184Kaczmarek4,05276,196

Who is named Brodeur

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

95% of people named Brodeur identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brodeur

Brodeur has the Soundex code B636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B636.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Brodeur come from?
Brodeur is French in origin.
How common is the surname Brodeur?
4,053 people in the United States had the surname Brodeur in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,177 Americans. It ranked 8,178th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brodeur?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brodeur identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Brodeur getting more or less common?
More common. 3,910 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,053 in 2010, up 3.7%.