The surname Brownrigg
An English place surname, carried by 731 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B656
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from any of several minor places in Cumbria, from Old English brūn (“brown”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
Brownrigg 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 731 people named Brownrigg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 422,361 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 680.
Who is named Brownrigg
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Brownrigg identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
- Two or more races 3.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 3.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Brownrigg has the Soundex code B656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B656.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Brownrigg come from?
- Habitational surname from any of several minor places in Cumbria, from Old English brūn (“brown”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
- How common is the surname Brownrigg?
- 731 people in the United States had the surname Brownrigg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 422,361 Americans. It ranked 31,629th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Brownrigg?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Brownrigg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Brownrigg?
- Brownrigg is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Brownrigg getting more or less common?
- More common. 680 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 731 in 2010, up 7.5%.