Brophy

6,295 people in the United States were counted with the surname Brophy in the 2020 census, making it the 5,346th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,295
Rank: 5,346th
How common: 1 in 47,500
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Bróithe (“descendant of Bróth”), a personal name or byname of unknown origin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Brophy

Jed Brophy (born 1963)New Zealand film actor
Edward Brophy (1895–1960)American actor and comedian
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995)British novelist, literary critic, polemicist

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

Surnames like Brophy

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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.