Brëë
surname · Latin script
Brëë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 24Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,012 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Bree in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom 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)- Middle Englishbrewe(measured from records)
- Old Englishbrēġ“eyelid”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*brēwō(measured from records)
From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Cognate with Dutch (wenk)brauw, German Braue. Compare brae from the same source. Apparently related to brow.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brëë 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 | — | 10,012 | 1 in 33K | 9.9K | Bree | 383 |
| AU Australia | #684 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 3 | Bree | 184 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 4 | Bree | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 3 | Bree | 114 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Bree | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 11 | Bree | 74 |
10,012 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 Brëë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Brëë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Brëë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bree.
- How common is the name Brëë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,012 people named Brëë in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Brëë compared with other names?
- In Australia, Brëë is the 684th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%AB%C3%ABThe 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, “Brëë” — the 684th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.