Brakeman Surname

683,026th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 435 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Belize

Brakeman Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Brakeman Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3631:998,50973,813
Belize721:4,937872
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1241:404,98929,999

Brakeman Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Brakeman Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Brakeman occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can occur as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Brakeman? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 683,026th most commonly used family name on a global scale It is held by approximately 1 in 16,752,979 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 93 percent of Brakeman are found; 77 percent are found in North America and 77 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

This last name is most numerous in The United States, where it is held by 363 people, or 1 in 998,509. In The United States Brakeman is mostly found in: California, where 18 percent are found, Alabama, where 12 percent are found and Michigan, where 9 percent are found. Other than The United States this surname exists in one country. It is also common in Belize, where 17 percent are found.

Brakeman Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Brakeman has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Brakeman surname expanded 293 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Brakeman Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Brakeman surname are 9.18% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.95% being registered with the political party.

Brakeman earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.43% less than the national average, earning $41,237 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Brakeman
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