Bram
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/brɑm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bram is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 730(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.7K
- USUnited States1 in 235K
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 Bram 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 730 (inferred from the name graph)
23,669 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Braem in US United States and Bräm in CH Switzerland.
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)
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bram 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #95 | 23,669 | 1 in 730 | 24K | Bram | 162 |
| BE Belgium | #306 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2.1K | Bram | 136 |
| US United States | — | 1,417 | 1 in 235K | 1.4K | Braem | 139 |
| BR Brazil | — | 426as Briam | 1 in 497K | 1.7K | Bram | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 1 | Bram | 65 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 472 | Bräm | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 77 | 1 in 133K | 77 | Bram | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 86 | Bram | 10 |
23,669 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bram 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 Swedish, bro (when addressing someone, especially a close male friend)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, a diminutive of the male given name Âbréhan or Âbra-am
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, Used exclusively in the expression med brask og bram.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, boastfulness, boasting, something used to boast with
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A male given name, short for Abraham
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)
- Bram Elderingb. 1865NLDutch concertmaster (1865-1943)
- Bram van Veldeb. 1895NLDutch painter (1895-1981)
- Bram van der Stokb. 1915NLDutch military pilot (1915–1993)
- Abraham Paisb. 1918NLnot in their usual nameDutch-American physicist and science historian (1918–2000)
- Bram Peperb. 1940NLDutch politician (1940–2022)
- Bram van Ojikb. 1954NLDutch politician and diplomat
- Bram Moolenaarb. 1961NLDutch programmer (1961–2023)
- Bram Cohenb. 1975USAmerican programmer, creator of BitTorrent protocol
- Bram Tankinkb. 1978NLroad bicycle racer
- Bram Nuytinckb. 1990NLDutch 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 24K | #105 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 22K | #143 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,704 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 573 | #8 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 86 | #8,566 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 77 | #10,174 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 56 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 42 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #12,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #9,704 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 1 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Bram?
- In the etymology graph, Ibrahim, Abraham and Brahim are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bram?
- A machine transcription gives /brɑm/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What does the name Bram mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., Kurzform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Bram a male or female name?
- Bram is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bram have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Bram, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bram.
- Where is Bram most common?
- Bram is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 730 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bram?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23,669 people named Bram, about 1 in 730 residents.
- How common is Bram compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bram is the 95th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bram?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bramThe 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, “Bram” — the 95th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.