Brinkley

At the 2020 census, 13,014 Americans bore the surname Brinkley — 2,705th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,000.

By the numbers

People: 13,014
Rank: 2,705th
How common: 1 in 23,000
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

"Brynca's wood or clearing", from Old English personal name *Brynca + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.2%
Black, not Hispanic 26.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Brinkley

Christie Brinkley (born 1954)American model and actress
David Brinkley (1920–2003)American journalist
John Brinkley (1763–1835)Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer
John R. Brinkley (1885–1942)American fraudulent physician
Nell Brinkley (1886–1944)American illustrator

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

Surnames like Brinkley

Also a first name

Brinkley has been given to 1,346 American babies as a first name since 1939, peaking in 2012. 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.