Find out how popular the last name Brouse is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Brouse.

Brouse, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Brouse surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Brouse in America

Brouse is the 21707th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Brouse surname appeared 1,199 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Brouse.

We can also compare 2010 data for Brouse to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Brouse

The surname Brouse originated in the northern regions of France and Belgium during the Middle Ages. It is derived from the Old French word "brous," which means "brushwood" or "undergrowth." This suggests that the name may have initially referred to someone who lived near or worked with brushwood.

The earliest known record of the name Brouse can be found in the Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vaast d'Arras, a collection of medieval charters and documents from the Abbey of Saint-Vaast in Arras, France, dating back to the 11th century. In this document, a person named Robertus Brouse is mentioned as owning land in the village of Bailleval.

During the 13th century, the name Brouse appeared in several other records in the region, including the Livre des bourgeois de la ville de Douai, a register of citizens in the city of Douai, and the Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cysoing, a collection of charters from the Abbey of Cysoing in modern-day Belgium.

One of the earliest known individuals with the surname Brouse was Jean Brouse, a merchant and alderman in the city of Arras, who lived in the late 14th century. Another notable figure was Jehan Brouse, a soldier who fought in the Hundred Years' War and was mentioned in the chronicles of Jean Froissart, a famous historian of the time.

In the 15th century, the name Brouse appeared in various records in the county of Hainaut, which was then part of the Burgundian Netherlands. One example is Colart Brouse, a landowner in the village of Sirault, mentioned in the Coutumes du pays et comté de Hainaut, a collection of local laws and customs.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the name Brouse was also found in parts of the Netherlands and Germany, likely due to migration and trade. For instance, Johannes Brouse was a merchant in Amsterdam in the late 16th century, while Hans Brouse was a farmer in the Rhineland region of Germany in the early 17th century.

Other notable individuals with the surname Brouse include Marie Brouse, a renowned lacemaker from the city of Valenciennes in the 17th century, and Jacques Brouse, a French soldier who fought in the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Brouse

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Brouse.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Brouse was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Brouse has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Brouse was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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