Brinkman

9,816 people in the United States were counted with the surname Brinkman in the 2020 census, making it the 3,546th most common in the country. That is about one person in 30,500.

By the numbers

People: 9,816
Rank: 3,546th
How common: 1 in 30,500
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Dutch Brinkman or a variant of German Brinkmann. Either way, equivalent to brink ("edge, border") + man ("person, human; male human").

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Brinkman

Johannes Brinkman (1902–1949)Dutch architect
Carl Gustaf von Brinkman (1764–1847)Swedish writer and diplomat
Jacques Brinkman (born 1966)field hockey player
Thierry Brinkman (born 1995)Dutch field hockey player

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

Surnames like Brinkman

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.