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    The surname Bruneau

    A French surname, carried by 1,728 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B650

    Bruneau: #16,593 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bruneau #16,593, 1,728 people Bruneau: #16,593 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bruneau #16,593, 1,728 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bruneau is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    A surname from French.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,728 people named Bruneau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,672 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,707.

    #16,593
    rank among US surnames
    1,728
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #15,710)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,586Curto1,729178,569
    #16,593Bruneau1,728178,672
    #16,601Rapier1,727178,776

    Who is named Bruneau

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

    94% of people named Bruneau identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bruneau

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

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bruneau come from?
    Bruneau is French in origin.
    How common is the surname Bruneau?
    1,728 people in the United States had the surname Bruneau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,672 Americans. It ranked 16,593rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bruneau?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bruneau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bruneau getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,707 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,728 in 2010, up 1.2%.