Broadus

3,075 people in the United States were counted with the surname Broadus in the 2020 census, making it the 10,006th most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,075
Rank: 10,006th
How common: 1 in 97,200
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

From Old English, yet the exact origin is. Possibly representing a family name formed from Old English brād (“broad”) + hūs (“house”); a corruption of Broadhurst; or possibly from the placename Broadwas.

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 49.0%
White, not Hispanic 41.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Surnames like Broadus

Also a first name

Broadus has been given to 905 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1924. 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.