Brada
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: chin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɹædə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 15K
- SKSlovakia1 in 32K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
chin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brada is read(measured from records)
Brada is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brada in English.
- Arabic20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brada in Arabic.
- Czech10%
chin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.9%
third-person singular past historic of brader
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brada in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brada 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Brada is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-ocs, beard (especially on the chin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of brado
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, genitive singular of brads
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of brād:
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)
- Anna Bradováb. 1876not in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1876)
- Irma Bradováb. 1878not in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1878)
- Ede Bradab. 1879HUHungarian choreographer
- Olga Bradováb. 1880CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1880-04-12
- Ida Bradováb. 1890CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1890-09-01
- Rezső Bradab. 1906HUHungarian ballet dancer, choreographer (1906-1948)
- Olga Bradováb. 1907CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1907-07-12
- Alfred Bradab. 1925Holocaust victim (born 1925)
- Stanislav Bradab. 1926CZCzech member of Czech National Council and politician
- Petr Bradab. 1942film producer
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 707 | #1,996 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 706 | #2,058 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 234 | #32,317 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 172 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38 | #36,346 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Brada mean, and where does it come from?
- chin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brada?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹædə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Brada in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brada.
- How common is the name Brada?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 706 people named Brada, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brada?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bradaThe 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, “Brada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.