Brodie

At the 2020 census, 6,009 Americans bore the surname Brodie — 5,585th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,009
Rank: 5,585th
How common: 1 in 49,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Scottish habitational surname of uncertain meaning. Probably of Pictish or Gaelic origin. Some of the suggestions that have been advanced as to the meaning of the name Brodie are:.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.1%
Black, not Hispanic 25.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Brodie

Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 1990)English actor
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783–1862)British surgeon
Steve Brodie (1919–1992)American actor
Leith Brodie (born 1986)Australian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
T. J. Brodie (born 1990)Canadian ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Brodie

Also a first name

Brodie has been given to 11,889 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

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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.