Brownswood Surname

6,723,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Brownswood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Brownswood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:9,286,343223,652
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England801:304,69220,471
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Brownswood Last Name Facts

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

The surname Brownswood is held by more people in England than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Brownswood? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 6,723,624th most frequently used last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 910,943,240 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 75 percent of Brownswood are found; 75 percent are found in Northern Europe and 75 percent are found in British Isles.

The surname is most widely held in England, where it is borne by 6 people, or 1 in 9,286,343. In England Brownswood is primarily concentrated in: West Yorkshire, where 50 percent are found, Leicestershire, where 17 percent are found and Staffordshire, where 17 percent are found. Beside England Brownswood exists in one country. It is also common in The United States, where 25 percent are found.

Brownswood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Brownswood has changed through the years. In England the number of people carrying the Brownswood last name contracted 92 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it grew 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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 Brownswood
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