How common is the surname Browne?

22,289 people in the United States had the surname Browne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,852 Americans. It ranked 1,615th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Browne?

Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter, followed by Roscoe Lee Browne.

Where is the surname Browne most common?

Wikidata records people named Browne in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Browne getting more or less common?

More common. 21,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,289 in 2010, up 5.6%.

The surname Browne

A nickname surname, carried by 22,289 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Browne is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

A surname transferred from the nickname, a spelling variant of Brown.

Browne is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 22,289 people named Browne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,852 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,109.

#1,615

rank among US surnames

22,289

people in 2010

7.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,563)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,606	Kauffman	22,353	13,812
#1,607	Piper	22,329	13,827
#1,609	Cuellar	22,324	13,830
#1,610	Steward	22,318	13,834
#1,611	Winn	22,316	13,835
#1,612	Gary	22,310	13,839
#1,613	Zhao	22,301	13,844

Who is named Browne

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

67% of people named Browne identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 67%
Black (not Hispanic) 26%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 2.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Brownes

34 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jackson Browne
American singer-songwriter, born 1948
Roscoe Lee Browne
American actor and director (1922–2007)
Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Austrian field marshal, 1705–1757
Malcolm Browne
American photographer and journalist (1931–2012)
Sylvia Browne
American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)
Walter Browne
American poker and chess player (1949–2015)
Hablot Knight Browne
British artist (1815-1882)
Leslie Browne
American dancer and actress (1957)
Harry Browne
American writer and politician (1933–2006)
Anthony Browne
British author (born 1946)
Roger Browne
American actor (1930–2024)
Charles Farrar Browne
American writer (1834–1867)

Notable Brownes come mostly from the United States (23), Australia (4) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (3).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Browne

Browne has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

Questions

How common is the surname Browne?: 22,289 people in the United States had the surname Browne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,852 Americans. It ranked 1,615th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Browne?: In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Browne identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Browne?: Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter, followed by Roscoe Lee Browne.
Where is the surname Browne most common?: Wikidata records people named Browne in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 2 other countries.
What type of surname is Browne?: Browne is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Browne getting more or less common?: More common. 21,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 22,289 in 2010, up 5.6%.