Bragança
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bragança is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bragança counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 19K | — |
| IN India | — | 307 | — |
| US United States | — | 190 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 40 | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 39 | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Bragança is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Bragança (a district in northeastern Portugal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Brasil, Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)- Isabella of Braganzab. 1514PTnot in their usual nameDuchess of Guimarães in her own right
- Teodósio II, Duke of Braganzab. 1568PTnot in their usual namePortuguese duke
- Catherine of Braganzab. 1638PTnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (1638–1705)
- Peter II of Portugalb. 1648PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1648–1706)
- John V of Portugalb. 1689PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1707 to 1750
- Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria, Marchioness of Louléb. 1806PTnot in their usual namePortuguese Royal (1806–1857)
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugalb. 1855ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and Portuguese royal (1855–1944)
- Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarãesb. 1858PTnot in their usual nameCountess of Bardi (1858–1946)
- Franz Joseph de Bragançab. 1879PTAustro-Hungarian Army officer
- Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo Gotha e Bragançab. 1907PTAlleged bastard daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal (1907-1995)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Bragança have the most bearers?
- Bragança is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Bragança?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bragan%C3%A7aThe 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, “Bragança”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.