Brattén
surname · Latin script
Brattén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Bhreatnaich (“son of the Briton”), from Breatnach (“Briton”).
- USUnited States1 in 233K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 18K
- DKDenmark≈1 in 49K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
1,426 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bratten in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 3 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)Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Bhreatnaich (“son of the Briton”), from Breatnach (“Briton”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brattén 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,426 | 1 in 233K | 1.4K | Bratten | 196 |
| NO Norway | 300 | 1 in 18K | 300 | Bratten | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Bratten | 46 |
| GH Ghana | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Bratten | 5 |
| DK Denmark | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Bratten | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Bratten | 1 |
1,426 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brattén mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Bhreatnaich (“son of the Briton”), from Breatnach (“Briton”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Brattén have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Brattén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bratten.
- Where is Brattén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brattén is densest in Norway — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brattén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,426 people named Brattén in 2010, about 1 in 233 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bratt%C3%A9nThe 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, “Brattén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.