Brabant
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brabant is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the place-name Brabant; origin/domicile name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 65Kas Brabante(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 281K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Brabant itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Brabante, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Brabante in PH Philippines, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)
from the place-name Brabant; origin/domicile name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brabant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Brabante | 34 |
| US United States | 1,185 | 1 in 281K | 1.2K | Brabante | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 906 | 1 in 13K | 906 | — | 10 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 565K | — | Brabante | 3 |
| ES Spain | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | Brabante | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | — | 2 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Brabant is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, Brabant (a former province of Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, De (Le) Brabant, nom de plusieurs localités du nord-est de la France, ou de Brabant, province de Belgique.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Le brabant est une charrue pouvant être munie de plusieurs socs qui fut d’abord fabriquée dans la province de Brabant, en Belgique.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In English, former duchy of Netherlands; prov.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Julius Brabantb. 1825DEGerman entrepreneur (1825–1912)
- Edward Brabantb. 1839ZASouth African colonial military commander (1839-1899)
- Artur Brabantb. 1870DEGerman archivist and historian (1870–1936)
- Hyacinthe Brabantb. 1907BEBelgian stomatologist
- Charles Brabantb. 1920FRFrench film producer, film director and screenwriter
- Pierre Brabantb. 1925CACanadian composer and pianist
- Louise Hamelin-Brabantb. 1951CAuniversity professor
- Jean-Michel Brabantb. 1951FRFrench historian
- Loïc Brabantb. 1961FRFrench actor
- Justine Brabantb. 1989FRFrench journalist and writer
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,658 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 906 | #1,514 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 852 | #1,611 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #67,292 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #46,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Brabant mean, and where does it come from?
- from the place-name Brabant; origin/domicile name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Brabant have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Brabante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Brabant most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brabant is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brabant?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,185 people named Brabant in 2010, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brabantThe same 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), 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, “Brabant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.