Brewer

Brewer is the 313th most common surname in the United States, shared by 98,650 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,030.

By the numbers

People: 98,650
Rank: 313th
How common: 1 in 3,030
Per 100,000: 33.0

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.1%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Brewer

Jan Brewer (born 1944)Governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015
Madeline Brewer (born 1992)American actress
Corey Brewer (born 1986)American basketball player
Teresa Brewer (1931–2007)American pop singer
Eric Brewer (born 1979)Canadian ice hockey player
Jamie Brewer (born 1985)American actress
Albert Brewer (1928–2017)47th Governor of Alabama
Ronnie Brewer (born 1985)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Brewer

Also a first name

Brewer has been given to 1,404 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2025. 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.