Broadway

6,248 people in the United States were counted with the surname Broadway in the 2020 census, making it the 5,391st most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,248
Rank: 5,391st
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

By, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.2%
Black, not Hispanic 27.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Broadway

Lizze Broadway (born 1998)American actress

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

Surnames like Broadway

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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.