Brága

surname · Latin script

Brága is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Braga, from Latin Bracara Augusta, named after a Celtic tribe, the Bracari. Doublet of Brácara.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 602(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈350,000 people, est.

Sources
289 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 602 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Braga in BR Brazil, US United States, PH Philippines and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Brága: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Brága
  1. Old Galician-PortugueseBraga(measured from records)
  2. Latin BracaraAugusta(measured from records)

From Old Galician-Portuguese Braga, from Latin Bracara Augusta, named after a Celtic tribe, the Bracari. Doublet of Brácara.

Sources 8

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brága counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Brága is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#101≈350,000 est.≈1 in 602186Braga233
PH Philippines—≈8,700 est.≈1 in 13K—Braga51
PT Portugal#157≈8,200 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Braga135
AO Angola#167≈5,200 est.≈1 in 6.3K1Braga23
IT Italy—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 15KlistedBraga95
US United States—3,4021 in 98K3.6KBraga289
UY Uruguay#2412,4751 in 1.4K2.5KBraga43

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Brága under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Brága mean, and where does it come from?
From Old Galician-Portuguese Braga, from Latin Bracara Augusta, named after a Celtic tribe, the Bracari. Doublet of Brácara. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 6 other sources.
In which country does Brága have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 352 thousand people named Brága in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braga.
How common is the name Brága?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,402 people named Brága in 2010, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
How common is Brága compared with other names?
In Brazil, Brága is the 101st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brága” — the 101st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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