Broom

Broom is the 6,586th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,938 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 60,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,938
Rank: 6,586th
How common: 1 in 60,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.9%
Black, not Hispanic 25.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Broom

Robert Broom (1866–1951)South African doctor and paleontologist
Jacob Broom (1752–1810)American politician 1752-1810

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

Surnames like Broom

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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.