Brimstone Surname

2,605,694th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 55 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Barbados

Brimstone Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Brimstone Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia251:1,079,82861,253
England141:3,979,861125,553
United States71:51,779,848968,877
Northern Ireland51:369,00715,220
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland111:402,71514,385
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England31:8,125,123158,686
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Brimstone Last Name Facts

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

Brimstone is most common in Australia. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Brimstone? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 2,605,694th most frequently held family name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 132,500,835 people. It is mostly found in Oceania, where 45 percent of Brimstone reside; 45 percent reside in Australasia and 45 percent reside in Australia and New Zealand.

The last name Brimstone is most frequently occurring in Australia, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 1,079,828. In Australia it is primarily found in: Queensland, where 76 percent are found, New South Wales, where 20 percent are found and South Australia, where 4 percent are found. Beside Australia it is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in England, where 25 percent are found and The United States, where 13 percent are found.

Brimstone Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Brimstone has changed through the years. In England the share of the population with the last name grew 467 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Brimstone Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is predominantly Anglican (100%) in Ireland.

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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 Brimstone
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