Breant
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Breant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Bréant.
- FRFrance≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 906K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Bréant in CH Switzerland.
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)
Borrowed from French Bréant.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Breant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 300 | Breant | 204 |
| ES Spain | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 906K | — | Breant | 2 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Breant | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Breant | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Bréant | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Breant 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 Breton, trachée-artère
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Christian Breantb. 1948FRpolitician
- Luc Breantb. 1954FRFrench politician
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
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
- What does the name Breant mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Bréant. Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Breant have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Breant in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breant.
- How common is the name Breant?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Breant in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Breant?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/breantThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Breant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.