Breén
given name · Latin script
Breén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: dant oiBraon’, a byname meaning ‘Moisture’, ‘Drop’. Vars.: O’Breen, O’Brean; O’Bruen; Brewin (Liverpool). Breeze 1. English: nickname for an irritating person, from ME breeze gadfly (OE breosa). 2.
- NONorway1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 23K
- NLNetherlands1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
14,170 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Breen in US United States, NL Netherlands, ES Spain.
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)dant oiBraon’, a byname meaning ‘Moisture’, ‘Drop’. Vars.: O’Breen, O’Brean; O’Bruen; Brewin (Liverpool). Breeze 1. English: nickname for an irritating person, from ME breeze gadfly (OE breosa). 2. Welsh: patr. from Rhys. Var.: Breese.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Breén is found
(measured from records)Breén 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 | 14,170 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Breen | 77 |
| NO Norway | 664 | 1 in 8.2K | 664 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 502 | 1 in 34K | 502 | Breen | 6 |
| ES Spain | 49 | 1 in 1M | 49 | Breen | 17 |
| PL Poland | 35 | 1 in 1.1M | 23 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 23 | 1 in 242K | 23 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | — |
14,170 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Breén mean, and where does it come from?
- dant oiBraon’, a byname meaning ‘Moisture’, ‘Drop’. Vars.: O’Breen, O’Brean; O’Bruen; Brewin (Liverpool). Breeze 1. English: nickname for an irritating person, from ME breeze gadfly (OE breosa). 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Breén?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Breén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breen. After it come Norway, Netherlands, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Breén most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Breén is densest in Norway — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Breén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,170 people named Breén in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bre%C3%A9nThe 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, “Breén”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.