Brazil

At the 2020 census, 5,027 Americans bore the surname Brazil — 6,491st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,027
Rank: 6,491st
How common: 1 in 59,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.5%
Black, not Hispanic 20.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Brazil

Bobo Brazil (1924–1998)American professional wrestler
Alan Brazil (born 1959)Scottish footballer
Vital Brazil (1865–1950)Brazilian physician
Prince Antônio Gastão of Brazil (1881–1918)Brazilian Imperial and Royal

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

Surnames like Brazil

Also a first name

Brazil has been given to 722 American babies as a first name since 1920, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

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.