Browne

22,128 people in the United States were counted with the surname Browne in the 2020 census, making it the 1,581st most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,500.

By the numbers

People: 22,128
Rank: 1,581st
How common: 1 in 13,500
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Browne described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.7%
Black, not Hispanic 26.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Browne

Thomas Browne (1605–1682)English polymath and author
Jackson Browne (born 1948)American singer-songwriter
Gaston Browne (born 1967)Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda since 2014
Roscoe Lee Browne (1925–2007)American actor and director
Edward Granville Browne (1861–1926)British Iranologist
Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705–1757)Austrian field marshal
Malcolm Browne (1931–2012)American photographer and journalist
Sylvia Browne (1936–2013)American author, psychic and medium

People named Browne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Browne

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.