How common is the surname Brumm?

1,443 people in the United States had the surname Brumm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. It ranked 18,918th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Brumm?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brumm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Brumm getting more or less common?

More common. 1,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,443 in 2010, up 3.7%.

The surname Brumm

A surname, carried by 1,443 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brumm is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, from the verb brummen (“to buzz”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,443 people named Brumm in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,392.

#18,918

rank among US surnames

1,443

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,354)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,910	Haver	1,444	213,813
#18,918	Asare	1,443	213,961

Who is named Brumm

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

95% of people named Brumm identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Brumm

Brumm has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

Questions

Where does the surname Brumm come from?: From the German surname, from the verb brummen (“to buzz”).
How common is the surname Brumm?: 1,443 people in the United States had the surname Brumm in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,961 Americans. It ranked 18,918th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Brumm?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Brumm identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Brumm getting more or less common?: More common. 1,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,443 in 2010, up 3.7%.