Brinza
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Brinza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 327K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 700K
- CZCzechia1 in 1.8M
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)subst. 1. - (Stef ; 17 B I 222); Brtnzta, Nica lui (Met 271) ; -ea (Ard). 2. Brtnzan, Ana (Bal I). 3. Brinzau (Ard). 4. Branzei (AO XVI 351). 5. Brtnzes (Drag). 6. Brtnzild, Ion, ard. 7. Brinzdtorul, Dan (16 B IV 240).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Brinza is found
(measured from records)Brinza 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Brinza is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Siers, ko parasti gatavo no aitu piena
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brinza?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Brinza in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brinza. After it come Moldova, Italy, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Brinza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 172 people named Brinza in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million 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/brinzaThe 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, “Brinza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.