Broughton

11,525 people in the United States were counted with the surname Broughton in the 2020 census, making it the 3,042nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,900.

By the numbers

People: 11,525
Rank: 3,042nd
How common: 1 in 25,900
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English beorg (“mountain, hill”) or brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.1%
Black, not Hispanic 28.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Broughton

John Broughton (born 1952)Australian astronomer
Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920)Welsh novelist
Bruce Broughton (born 1945)American composer
Jack Broughton (1703–1789)British boxer
William Robert Broughton (1762–1821)British naval officer
Gayle Broughton (born 1996)New Zealand rugby union player

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

Surnames like Broughton

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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.