Brownell

At the 2020 census, 6,786 Americans bore the surname Brownell — 5,012th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,786
Rank: 5,012th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Brownell

Herbert Brownell (1904–1996)American lawyer and politician
Raymond Brownell (1894–1974)Senior Royal Australian Air Force officer, First World War flying ace
Alfred Brownell (born 1966)Liberian environmental lawyer and activist

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

Surnames like Brownell

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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.