Braithwaite

At the 2020 census, 3,993 Americans bore the surname Braithwaite — 7,955th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,993
Rank: 7,955th
How common: 1 in 74,900
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From Old Norse breiðr (“broad”) + þveit (“clearing”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.7%
Black, not Hispanic 29.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Braithwaite

Martin Braithwaite (born 1991)Danish association football player
E. R. Braithwaite (1912–2016)Guyanese writer
Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988)Nigerian-UK author
Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948)English actress

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

Surnames like Braithwaite

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.