Brownlee

At the 2020 census, 10,915 Americans bore the surname Brownlee — 3,224th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,400.

By the numbers

People: 10,915
Rank: 3,224th
How common: 1 in 27,400
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from Old English brūn (“brown”) + lēah (“clearing in a forest”). Equivalent; compare Brown.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.7%
Black, not Hispanic 36.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Brownlee

Alistair Brownlee (born 1988)British triathlete
Jonathan Brownlee (born 1990)British triathlete
Marques Brownlee (born 1993)American technology reviewer, YouTuber and Internet personality
John Edward Brownlee (1883–1961)fifth Premier of Alberta, Canada
Frank Brownlee (1874–1948)actor

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

Surnames like Brownlee

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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.