How common is the surname Brookshire?

5,472 people in the United States had the surname Brookshire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,423 Americans. It ranked 6,245th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Brookshire getting more or less common?

More common. 5,263 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,472 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Brookshire

A surname, carried by 5,472 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B626

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brookshire is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

Unexplained, but perhaps related to Brookshaw.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,472 people named Brookshire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,423 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,263.

#6,245

rank among US surnames

5,472

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #6,018)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,241	Soler	5,477	56,371
#6,242	Lenhart	5,476	56,382
#6,244	Baber	5,474	56,402
#6,245	Lefevre	5,472	56,423

Who is named Brookshire

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

87% of people named Brookshire identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.1%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Brooksher
Brookshier

Surnames that sound like Brookshire

Brookshire has the Soundex code B626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B626.

Questions

Where does the surname Brookshire come from?: Unexplained, but perhaps related to Brookshaw.
How common is the surname Brookshire?: 5,472 people in the United States had the surname Brookshire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,423 Americans. It ranked 6,245th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brookshire?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Brookshire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Brookshire getting more or less common?: More common. 5,263 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,472 in 2010, up 4.0%.
What are other spellings of Brookshire?: Brooksher and Brookshier.