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McBroom

At the 2020 census, 4,386 Americans bore the surname McBroom — 7,325th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 68,100.

By the numbers

People
4,386
Rank
7,325th
How common
1 in 68,100
Per 100,000
1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Bhreitheamhan (“son of the judge”), from breitheamh (“judge”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Notable people called McBroom

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

Surnames like McBroom

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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.