Bream Surname
Approximately 1,463 people bear this surname
Bream Surname Definition:
(English) Vigorous, Fierce; earlier, Famous, Noble [Middle English breme, Old English bréme] Howevere beest outher brid [or bird] Hath so breme wittes.— Piers Plowman, 7877-8.
The noise of peple up-sterte than (then] at ones As breme as blase of straw y-set on fire.
Read More About This SurnameBream Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 998 | 1:363,185 | 32,353 |
| England | 372 | 1:149,780 | 14,332 |
| Wales | 17 | 1:182,031 | 12,022 |
| Isle of Man | 10 | 1:8,582 | 1,778 |
| New Zealand | 9 | 1:503,147 | 33,029 |
| Scotland | 8 | 1:669,227 | 23,443 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Philippines | 6 | 1:16,873,037 | 249,062 |
| Australia | 5 | 1:5,399,140 | 162,351 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| France | 3 | 1:22,140,907 | 385,998 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Jordan | 2 | 1:4,421,218 | 22,351 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 2 | 1:55,188 | 6,229 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 190 | 1:128,291 | 11,943 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 168 | 1:298,921 | 23,746 |
Bream (37) may also be a first name.
Bream Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(English) Vigorous, Fierce; earlier, Famous, Noble [Middle English breme, Old English bréme] Howevere beest outher brid [or bird] Hath so breme wittes.— Piers Plowman, 7877-8.
The noise of peple up-sterte than (then] at ones As breme as blase of straw y-set on fire. Chaucer, Trail. & Crts., iv. 183-4.
1. A chapelry in co. Gloucester. 2. Old English, brim, renowned, famous, from Anglo-Saxon bfeman, to celebrate.
A location name in Gloucestershire.
Bream Demographics
Average Bream Salary in
United States
$45,848 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Bream Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bream Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Bream is most common in The United States. It can appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Bream? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 267,085th most widely held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 4,981,234 people. The surname Bream occurs mostly in The Americas, where 69 percent of Bream reside; 69 percent reside in North America and 69 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Bream is also the 1,688,769th most commonly used first name in the world. It is borne by 37 people.
This surname is most commonly held in The United States, where it is held by 998 people, or 1 in 363,185. In The United States Bream is most frequent in: Pennsylvania, where 33 percent live, California, where 11 percent live and Iowa, where 7 percent live. Apart from The United States it exists in 28 countries. It is also common in England, where 25 percent live and Wales, where 1 percent live.
Bream Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Bream has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 594 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 196 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Bream Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Bream surname are 35.49% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 82.26% registered to vote for the party.
Bream earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 6.26% more than the national average, earning $45,848 USD per year.
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Footnotes
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