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    The surname Brownlow

    An English place surname, carried by 2,236 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B654

    Brownlow: #13,564 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brownlow #13,564, 2,236 people Brownlow: #13,564 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brownlow #13,564, 2,236 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brownlow is more common than 91.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English brūn (“brown”) + hlāw (“mound, hill”).

    Brownlow 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 2,236 people named Brownlow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,079 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,186.

    #13,564
    rank among US surnames
    2,236
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,900)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,564Trang2,236138,079
    #13,569Umberger2,235138,141
    #13,572Boler2,234138,203

    Who is named Brownlow

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

    69% of people named Brownlow identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Brownlows

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Parson Brownlow
      American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1877)
    • Jane Brownlow
      British educationist and suffragist, 1854–1928

    Notable Brownlows come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brownlow

    Brownlow 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 Brownlow come from?
    From Old English brūn (“brown”) + hlāw (“mound, hill”).
    How common is the surname Brownlow?
    2,236 people in the United States had the surname Brownlow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,079 Americans. It ranked 13,564th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brownlow?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Brownlow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Brownlow?
    Parson Brownlow, American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1877), followed by Jane Brownlow.
    Where is the surname Brownlow most common?
    Wikidata records people named Brownlow in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    What type of surname is Brownlow?
    Brownlow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Brownlow getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,186 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,236 in 2010, up 2.3%.