Explore the Family Name Brackley

The meaning of Brackley

English (Buckinghamshire): habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Brackley, from an Old English personal name Bracc(a) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In some instances this is a topographic for someone who lived ‘(at the) clearing in the bracken’, from Middle English braken + legh, leye (Old English bracu + lēah).

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How common is the last name Brackley in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the surname Brackley saw a slight increase in popularity between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, the surname was ranked 64,934th in popularity with about 286 individuals carrying the name. By 2010, the rank increased to 64,200, representing a 1.13% change in rank. Similarly, the count of individuals with this surname also grew by 8.39%, from 286 in 2000 to 310 in 2010. Despite these changes, the proportion of people with the Brackley surname per 100,000 remained constant at 0.11.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#64,934	#64,200	1.13%
Count	286	310	8.39%
Proportion per 100k	0.11	0.11	0%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Brackley

In terms of ethnicity, the census data reveals that the majority of individuals with the Brackley surname identify as White, making up 95.80% of the group in 2000 and slightly decreasing to 95.16% in 2010. Over the same decade, there was a notable rise in the percentage of those reporting two or more races in their ethnic identity, increasing by 65.71% from 1.75% to 2.90%. The data for Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Black, and American Indian and Alaskan Native groups were either zero or suppressed for privacy reasons.

	2000	2010	Change
White	95.8%	95.16%	-0.67%
Two or More Races	1.75%	2.9%	65.71%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%