The surname Brookins
An English place surname, carried by 5,499 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B625
Origin
English origin
A topographic surname for someone who lived by a stream, from a derivative of Old English brōc (“stream, brook”).
Brookins 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 5,499 people named Brookins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,146 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,887.
Who is named Brookins
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
57% of people named Brookins identified as Black (not Hispanic), 38% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 57%
- White (not Hispanic) 38%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Brookens
- Brooking
- Brookings
Brookins has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Brookins come from?
- A topographic surname for someone who lived by a stream, from a derivative of Old English brōc (“stream, brook”).
- How common is the surname Brookins?
- 5,499 people in the United States had the surname Brookins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,146 Americans. It ranked 6,219th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brookins?
- In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Brookins identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 38% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Brookins?
- Brookins is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Brookins getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,887 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,499 in 2010, up 13%.
- What are other spellings of Brookins?
- Brookens, Brooking and Brookings.