Brace

At the 2020 census, 4,729 Americans bore the surname Brace — 6,845th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,729
Rank: 6,845th
How common: 1 in 63,200
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

English surname of Norman origin, from Old French brace (“arm”) and thus related to the noun brace.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 7.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Surnames like Brace

Try it on yourself

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.