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    The surname Brumfield

    A surname, carried by 11,842 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B651

    Brumfield: #3,027 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Brumfield #3,027, 11,842 people Brumfield: #3,027 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brumfield #3,027, 11,842 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brumfield is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,842 people named Brumfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,072 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,350.

    #3,027
    rank among US surnames
    11,842
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #2,913)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,018Galvin11,88225,984
    #3,019Doughty11,88025,989
    #3,020Fraley11,87625,997
    #3,022Allan11,86726,017
    #3,023Beauchamp11,86526,022
    #3,024Viera11,86126,030
    #3,025Moffett11,85326,048

    Who is named Brumfield

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

    55% of people named Brumfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 41%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brumfield

    Brumfield 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 Brumfield?
    11,842 people in the United States had the surname Brumfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,072 Americans. It ranked 3,027th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brumfield?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Brumfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brumfield getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,350 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,842 in 2010, up 4.3%.