Bressàn

surname · Latin script

Bressàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Brescia.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 21K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 12K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

9,878 people

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bressan in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, IT Italy and 4 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)

Variante di Brescia

Sources 3

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bressàn 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.

Where Bressàn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#6399,8781 in 21K9.9KBressan121
IT Italy—≈5,000 est.≈1 in 12KlistedBressan58
AR Argentina—2,8671 in 16K2.9KBressan59
FR France—≈890 est.≈1 in 76K105Bressan2
US United States—2591 in 1.3M268Bressan67
UY Uruguay—2081 in 16K208Bressan12
CH Switzerland—1231 in 68K123Bressan12

9,878 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bressàn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bressàn mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Brescia Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
In which country does Bressàn have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Bressàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bressan.
How common is the name Bressàn?
In Brazil, the national register counted 9,878 people named Bressàn, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Bressàn compared with other names?
In Brazil, Bressàn is the 639th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bressàn” — the 639th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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