Last Name BROUGHTON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Broughton. Parishes, Hamlets, chapelries, and townships in counties Hants, Bucks, Lancashire, Lincoln, Northampton, Oxford, Salop, Hants, Stafford, etc. Originally no doubt for Boroughtown.
Local: A town on the hill; a village in Flintshire, England.
Origin English, Irish, Maori, Belgian, South african

Rank 2,844 (2000 US census) 2,881 (1990 US census)
Count 11,574 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 68.97%, or 7983 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 27.26%, or 3155 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.44%, or 51 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.48%, or 56 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.67%, or 193 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.18%, or 137 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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