The surname Brooking
A surname, carried by 1,046 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B625
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,046 people named Brooking in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 295,168 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,028.
#24,075
rank among US surnames
1,046
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+1.8%
change since 2000 (was #23,167)
Who is named Brooking
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Brooking identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Two or more races 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Brooking
Brooking has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.
Questions
- How common is the surname Brooking?
- 1,046 people in the United States had the surname Brooking in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 295,168 Americans. It ranked 24,075th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brooking?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Brooking identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Brooking getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,028 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,046 in 2010, up 1.8%.