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    The surname Bromwell

    An English place surname, carried by 522 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B654

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bromwell is more common than 74.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Herefordshire, from Old English brōm (“broom”) + wella (“spring, stream”).

    Bromwell is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 522 people named Bromwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 591,467 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 492.

    #41,657
    rank among US surnames
    522
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #41,657)

    Who is named Bromwell

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

    92% of people named Bromwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bromwell

    Bromwell has the Soundex code B654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B654.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bromwell come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Herefordshire, from Old English brōm (“broom”) + wella (“spring, stream”).
    How common is the surname Bromwell?
    522 people in the United States had the surname Bromwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 591,467 Americans. It ranked 41,657th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bromwell?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bromwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bromwell?
    Bromwell is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bromwell getting more or less common?
    More common. 492 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 522 in 2010, up 6.1%.