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

Brumbaugh, 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 Brumbaugh surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Brumbaugh in America

Brumbaugh is the 6635th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Brumbaugh surname appeared 5,103 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 people would have the surname Brumbaugh.

We can also compare 2010 data for Brumbaugh 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 Brumbaugh

The surname Brumbaugh is of German origin, derived from the Middle High German words "brūn" meaning brown and "bach" meaning brook or stream. It is believed to have originated in the 14th or 15th century as a descriptive name for someone who lived near a brown-colored brook or stream.

The earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in various German church records and tax rolls from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of the earliest known bearers of the name include Hans Brumbaugh, born in 1532 in Worms, and Peter Brumbaugh, who was mentioned in a 1617 census record from the town of Heidelberg.

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, many German immigrants with the surname Brumbaugh began arriving in America, primarily settling in Pennsylvania and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region. One of the earliest recorded Brumbaughs in America was Johannes Brumbaugh, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1732.

The name Brumbaugh has been associated with several notable individuals throughout history. Abraham Brumbaugh (1730-1805) was a German-American farmer and Revolutionary War soldier from Pennsylvania. His grandson, Henry Brumbaugh (1814-1889), was a prominent educator and co-founder of the Brumbaugh Academy in Pennsylvania.

In the 19th century, Martin Grove Brumbaugh (1828-1919) was a well-known educator, author, and founder of the Brumbaugh Historical Society. His nephew, Galusha Aaron Brumbaugh (1862-1952), served as the 29th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1915 to 1919.

Another notable bearer of the name was Henry May Brumbaugh (1892-1967), a respected physicist and educator who made significant contributions to the field of spectroscopy.

While the name has undergone various spelling variations over the centuries, such as Brumbach, Brumbagh, and Brumbough, the Brumbaugh spelling has remained the most common form in recent generations.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Brumbaugh

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

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 Brumbaugh 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 Brumbaugh 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 Brumbaugh was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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