Brehm

At the 2020 census, 5,051 Americans bore the surname Brehm — 6,467th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 59,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,051
Rank: 6,467th
How common: 1 in 59,200
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

South German surname, from the noun Bremse (“gadfly”). Also from placenames such as Bremgarten or Bremkamp, where the first element is the archaic *brām (“bramble, broom”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Brehm

Alfred Brehm (1829–1884)German naturalist
Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864)German pastor and ornithologist

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

Surnames like Brehm

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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.