Bräutigam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a kinship/relationship nickname meaning 'bridegroom'
/bʁɔʏtɪɡam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bräutigam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1Mas Braeutigam
- CHSwitzerland1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bräutigam itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Braeutigam in US United States, CH Switzerland, RE Réunion and 1 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)
from a kinship/relationship nickname meaning 'bridegroom'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bräutigam 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Bräutigam | 73 |
| US United States | 160as Braeutigam | 1 in 2.1M | 173 | Braeutigam | 101 |
| SE Sweden | 92 | 1 in 111K | 92 | Bräutigam | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | Braeutigam | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Braeutigam | 1 |
| RE Réunion | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Braeutigam | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 12 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bräutigam is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, bridegroom (a man with regard to his wedding)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otto Bräutigamb. 1895DEGerman lawyer and diplomat (1895-1992)
- Alois Bräutigamb. 1916DEGerman politician (1916–2007)
- Herbert Bräutigamb. 1927DEGerman author (1927-2020)
- Hans Otto Bräutigamb. 1931DEGerman politician and jurist
- Volker Bräutigamb. 1939DEGerman composer (1939–2022)
- Volker Bräutigamb. 1941DEGerman opinion journalist
- Siegfried Bräutigamb. 1944DEGerman botanist
- Markus Bräutigamb. 1951DEGerman film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Perry Bräutigamb. 1963DEGerman footballer
- Frank Bräutigamb. 1975DEGerman journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 92 | #7,717 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 80 | #13,092 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bräutigam mean, and where does it come from?
- from a kinship/relationship nickname meaning 'bridegroom' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Bräutigam?
- In the etymology graph, BrideGroom is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bräutigam?
- A machine transcription gives /bʁɔʏtɪɡam/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Bräutigam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Bräutigam in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bräutigam.
- How common is the name Bräutigam?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 92 people named Bräutigam, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%A4utigamThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bräutigam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.