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    The surname Brow

    A surname, carried by 1,616 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B600

    Brow: #17,447 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brow #17,447, 1,616 people Brow: #17,447 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brow #17,447, 1,616 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brow is more common than 89.2% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, from the noun brow. * As a French surname, variant of Brault and also Breaux. Compare Bro, Broe. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Brouw, either from the verb brouwen (“to brew”) or a variant of op den Brouw, a toponym of uncertain origin (possibly itself related to brouwen).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,616 people named Brow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 191,055 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,613.

    #17,447
    rank among US surnames
    1,616
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,427)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,441Canipe1,617190,937
    #17,447Gaye1,616191,055
    #17,455Fredericksen1,615191,174

    Who is named Brow

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

    84% of people named Brow identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brow

    Brow has the Soundex code B600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B600.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Brow come from?
    * As an English surname, from the noun brow. * As a French surname, variant of Brault and also Breaux. Compare Bro, Broe. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Brouw, either from the verb brouwen (“to brew”) or a variant of op den Brouw, a toponym of uncertain origin (possibly itself related to…
    How common is the surname Brow?
    1,616 people in the United States had the surname Brow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 191,055 Americans. It ranked 17,447th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brow?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Brow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brow getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,616 in 2010, up 0.2%.