Brix
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɪks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brix is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 527K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 3.7K
- ATAustria≈1 in 51K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,604 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brix 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.
1,604 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Brix 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 French, Variante de Brice, du latin Bricius.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Maltese, verbal noun of barax
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Josef Brixb. 1859DEGerman architect (1859–1943)
- Aage Brixb. 1894USAmerican soccer player (1894-1963)
- Emil Brixb. 1902DEpolitician
- Wolfgang Brixb. 1930DEGerman politician (1930–2006)
- Silke Brixb. 1951DEGerman illustrator
- Peter Heinrich Brixb. 1955DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Emil Brixb. 1956ATAustrian diplomat and historian
- Michel Brixb. 1958BEBelgian literary historian and literary critic
- Aglaja Brixb. 1990DEGerman actress
- Kristian Brixb. 1990NONorwegian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,911 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 24 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #6,603 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Brix mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort ».
- How do you pronounce Brix?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɪks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brix have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Brix, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brix.
- Where is Brix most common?
- Brix is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brix?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,604 people named Brix, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brix?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brixThe 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, “Brix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.