Last Name BROWNING

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Browning, sometimes Bruning.

Origin	English, Irish, Falkland

Rank	732 (2000 US census)	684 (1990 US census)

Count	42,642 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

88.99%, or 37947 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
7.06%, or 3011 total occurrences, as black,
0.42%, or 179 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.73%, or 311 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.33%, or 567 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.47%, or 627 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest last names

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