How rare is the last name Brinkley?

13,014 people in the United States have the last name Brinkley, about 1 in 22,967. It ranks #2,705 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

BRINKLEY

#2,705

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,014
About
1 in 22,967
This common or more
51.4%
Who bears it

Of the 13,014 people with the last name Brinkley, 64.2% reported their origin as White, 26.9% as Black and 4.8% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Brinkley

#2,703 Aparicio · 13,025#2,704 Bourgeois · 13,021#2,706 Pickering · 13,004#2,707 Heaton · 13,003

Spelled almost the same

4 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Brinkley, most common first.

#6,312 Brinker · 5,176#46,793 Bringle · 490#135,344 Brinklow · 129#150,205 Brinkly · 109

Also a first name

As a first name, Brinkley ranks #10,704 of 53,615, with 1,230 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2012, with 96 births. See Brinkley as a first name

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