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    The surname Brousseau

    A French surname, carried by 2,662 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B620

    Brousseau: #11,767 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brousseau #11,767, 2,662 people Brousseau: #11,767 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brousseau #11,767, 2,662 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brousseau is more common than 92.7% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from French.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,662 people named Brousseau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,983 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,532.

    #11,767
    rank among US surnames
    2,662
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.1%
    change since 2000 (was #11,416)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,759Frahm2,664115,895
    #11,764Boehmer2,663115,939
    #11,767Pesina2,662115,983

    Who is named Brousseau

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

    94% of people named Brousseau identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brousseau

    Brousseau has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brousseau come from?
    Brousseau is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Brousseau?
    2,662 people in the United States had the surname Brousseau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,983 Americans. It ranked 11,767th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brousseau?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Brousseau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Brousseau getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,532 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,662 in 2010, up 5.1%.