Brittingham

At the 2020 census, 3,537 Americans bore the surname Brittingham — 8,888th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 84,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,537
Rank: 8,888th
How common: 1 in 84,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from either of two places called Brettenham, from Old English Bryttas (“Briton”) + hamm (“enclosure”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.5%
Black, not Hispanic 20.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Brittingham

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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.