Bruegger
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bruegger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 85th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3Kas Brügger(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.1Kas Brugger
- DEGermany≈1 in 20Kas Brugger
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 Bruegger 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 named Brugger, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Brugger in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 1 more and Brügger in NO Norway.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bruegger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Brugger | 115 |
| CH Switzerland | #85 | 3,680as Brügger | 1 in 2.3K | 3.7K | Brugger | 60 |
| US United States | — | 2,405as Brugger | 1 in 138K | 2.4K | Brugger | 224 |
| AT Austria | #195 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Brugger | 78 |
| BR Brazil | — | 834as Brugger | 1 in 254K | 834 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 94as Brugger | 1 in 58K | 94 | Brügger | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 44as Brugger | 1 in 77K | 44 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Bruegger | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Columban Bruggerb. 1855CHAbbot of Einsiedeln Abbey
- Anthony Brueggerb. 1949GB(born 1949)
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 387 | #50,686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 375 | #54,864 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Bruegger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Brugger in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bruegger?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,680 people named Brügger in 2024, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Bruegger compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bruegger is the 85th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brueggerThe 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, “Bruegger” — the 85th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.