Breán
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Breán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Western Sahara it is the 12th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. locative name from Brean (Somerset), recorded as Brien in Domesday Book.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- EHWestern Sahara≈1 in 3.3K
- NONorway1 in 94K
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
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
276 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Western Sahara, 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 Brean 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)Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. locative name from Brean (Somerset), recorded as Brien in Domesday Book.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Breán 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 | — | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 331 | Brean | 147 |
| EH Western Sahara | #12 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Brean | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 428K | 21 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 775K | — | Brean | 45 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Brean | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 58 | 1 in 94K | 58 | Brean | 10 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 506K | — | Brean | 1 |
276 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Breán mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. locative name from Brean (Somerset), recorded as Brien in Domesday Book. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Breán a male or female name?
- Breán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Breán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 276 people named Breán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brean.
- How common is the name Breán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Breán in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Breán compared with other names?
- In Western Sahara, Breán is the 12th most common surname of 38 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bre%C3%A1nThe 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, “Breán” — the 12th most common surname in Western Sahara. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.