The surname Brownfield
A surname, carried by 4,067 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B651
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,067 people named Brownfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,915 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,013.
#8,153
rank among US surnames
4,067
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.3%
change since 2000 (was #7,640)
Who is named Brownfield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Brownfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.9%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Brownfield
Brownfield has the Soundex code B651, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B651.
Questions
- How common is the surname Brownfield?
- 4,067 people in the United States had the surname Brownfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,915 Americans. It ranked 8,153rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brownfield?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Brownfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Brownfield getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,013 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,067 in 2010, up 1.3%.