Brolin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brolin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: James, US actor.
- SESweden1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 111K
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,365 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
James, US actor
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brolin 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.
2,365 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andreas Johan Brolinb. 1844SESwedish painter (1844-1926)
- John Leonard Brolinb. 1867SESwedish painter (1867-1927)
- Ulf Sven Ivar Brolinb. 1929SESwedish architect (1929-2009)
- James Brolinb. 1940USAmerican actor (born 1940)
- Åsa Brolinb. 1941SESwedish actress
- Josh Brolinb. 1968USAmerican actor (born 1968)
- Tomas Brolinb. 1969SESwedish footballer
- Anna Brolinb. 1980SESwedish television host
- Eden Brolinb. 1994USAmerican actress
- Samuel Brolinb. 2000SESwedish association football player
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Brolin mean, and where does it come from?
- James, US actor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How common is the name Brolin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2,365 people named Brolin, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- In which country does Brolin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Brolin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brolin.
- Where is Brolin most common?
- Brolin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brolinThe 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, “Brolin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.