Broadbent

3,632 people in the United States were counted with the surname Broadbent in the 2020 census, making it the 8,670th most common in the country. That is about one person in 82,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,632
Rank: 8,670th
How common: 1 in 82,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English brād (“broad”) + beonet (“bentgrass, rush, reed”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Broadbent

Jim Broadbent (born 1949)English actor
Peter Broadbent (1933–2013)English footballer
Annie Broadbent (1908–1996)British artistic gymnast
Graham Broadbent (born 2000)British film producer

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

Surnames like Broadbent

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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.