How common is the surname Brosnan?

2,501 people in the United States had the surname Brosnan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,449 Americans. It ranked 12,426th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Brosnan?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Brosnan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Brosnan getting more or less common?

More common. 2,394 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,501 in 2010, up 4.5%.

The surname Brosnan

An Irish surname, carried by 2,501 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brosnan is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Bresnahan.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,501 people named Brosnan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,449 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,394.

#12,426

rank among US surnames

2,501

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.5%

change since 2000 (was #11,971)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,417	Vanetten	2,504	123,301
#12,421	Nicoll	2,503	123,350
#12,423	Ju	2,502	123,399
#12,426	Fellers	2,501	123,449
#12,429	Nolin	2,500	123,498
#12,432	Soza	2,499	123,548
#12,435	Wittenberg	2,498	123,597

Who is named Brosnan

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

96% of people named Brosnan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brosnan

Brosnan has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Brosnan come from?: Variant of Bresnahan.
How common is the surname Brosnan?: 2,501 people in the United States had the surname Brosnan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,449 Americans. It ranked 12,426th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brosnan?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Brosnan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Brosnan getting more or less common?: More common. 2,394 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,501 in 2010, up 4.5%.