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The BROOKMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,180 12925 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 577 8601 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1603 -4324 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 210 7232 0.001 13
United Kingdom 1,004 5250 0.002 22
Top States for BROOKMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 315 2911 0.004 45
California 218 12073 0.001 6
Illinois 156 8753 0.001 13
Florida 117 15378 0.001 7
Missouri 109 6835 0.002 19
Top States for BROOKMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 315 2911 0.004 45
Alaska 20 4660 0.003 32
West Virginia 53 3712 0.003 29
Vermont 13 6516 0.002 21
Colorado 84 6727 0.002 20

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BROOKMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BROOKMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BROOKMAN in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BROOKMAN by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BROOKMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BROOKMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BROOKMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BROOKMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 35 1.61
Black/African American 23 1.06
Mixed Race 21 0.96
White (Caucasian) 2,089 95.83
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BROOKMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BROOKMAN in historical publications

BROOKMAN. See Brook, and the termination MAX.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BROOKMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOKMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BROOKMAN

The following words are slight variants of BROOKMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.