How common is the surname Brownlee?

11,344 people in the United States had the surname Brownlee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,217 Americans. It ranked 3,186th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Brownlee?

Marques Brownlee, American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality, followed by Frank Brownlee.

Where is the surname Brownlee most common?

Wikidata records people named Brownlee in the United States.

Is the surname Brownlee getting more or less common?

More common. 10,839 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,344 in 2010, up 4.7%.

The surname Brownlee

An English place surname, carried by 11,344 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B654

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brownlee is more common than 98% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from Old English brūn (“brown”) + lēah (“clearing in a forest”). Equivalent to brown + -lee (“lea”); compare Brown.

Brownlee is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 11,344 people named Brownlee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 27,217 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,839.

#3,186

rank among US surnames

11,344

people in 2010

3.9

per 100,000 Americans

+4.7%

change since 2000 (was #3,066)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,177	Sisson	11,380	27,131
#3,178	Pepper	11,374	27,145
#3,179	Choate	11,372	27,150
#3,180	Tolentino	11,371	27,152
#3,181	Whelan	11,363	27,171
#3,182	Yan	11,354	27,193
#3,183	McNeely	11,350	27,202

Who is named Brownlee

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

58% of people named Brownlee identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 58%
Black (not Hispanic) 37%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Brownlees

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Marques Brownlee
American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality, born 1993
Frank Brownlee
Actor (1874-1948)
Donald E. Brownlee
American astronomer, born 1943
Kate Brownlee Sherwood
American writer (1841–1914)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Brownlee

Brownlee has the Soundex code B654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B654.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Brownlee come from?: Habitational surname from Old English brūn (“brown”) + lēah (“clearing in a forest”). Equivalent to brown + -lee (“lea”); compare Brown.
How common is the surname Brownlee?: 11,344 people in the United States had the surname Brownlee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 27,217 Americans. It ranked 3,186th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brownlee?: In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Brownlee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Brownlee?: Marques Brownlee, American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality, followed by Frank Brownlee.
Where is the surname Brownlee most common?: Wikidata records people named Brownlee in the United States.
What type of surname is Brownlee?: Brownlee is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Brownlee getting more or less common?: More common. 10,839 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,344 in 2010, up 4.7%.