Brodski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹɒɖski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brodski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 249K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 81Kas Brodsky
- ARArgentina1 in 174Kas Brodsky
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Brodski 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
4,083 named Brodsky, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brodsky in US United States.
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)
(Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brodski 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.
4,083 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Brodski is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, ship; nautical
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, ruski pjesnik, esejist, analitičar suvremene angloameričke i ruske poezije, izvanredan prevodilac poezije s engleskog na ruski i s ruskog na engleski; istaknuti disident u SSSR-u, od 1972. u SAD-u ( Pjesme i poeme , Kraj predivne epohe ); Nobelova nagrada za književnost 1987.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Ruslana Brodskib. 1982ILIsraeli female badminton player
- Michael BrodskiDEresearcher in particle physics
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 17 | #25,098 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Brodski mean, and where does it come from?
- (Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Brodski?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹɒɖski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brodski have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Brodsky, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Brodski most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brodski is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brodski?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 17 people named Brodski in 2021, about 1 in 249 thousand 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/brodskiThe 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, “Brodski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.