Browning

Browning is the 814th most common surname in the United States, shared by 41,347 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,229.

By the numbers

People: 41,347
Rank: 814th
How common: 1 in 7,229
Per 100,000: 13.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Brūning, a patronymic for a person nicknamed Brūn (“brown”) (see Brown).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Browning

Robert Browning (1812–1889)English poet and playwright
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)English poet
John Browning (1855–1926)firearms designer of the United States
Emily Browning (born 1988)Australian actress, singer and model
Tod Browning (1880–1962)American film actor and director
Logan Browning (born 1989)American actress and singer
Tyias Browning (born 1994)British-Chinese footballer
Frederick Browning (1896–1965)British Army general

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

Surnames like Browning

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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.