Brücker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Herkunfts- und Wohnstättenname zu Brücke; zeigt die Vokalvariante -ück-
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bʁʏkʰɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brücker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 129K
- ATAustria≈1 in 35K
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 Brücker 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)
- Record sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Brucker in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 2 more and Bruecker in ZM Zambia.
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)Herkunfts- und Wohnstättenname zu Brücke; zeigt die Vokalvariante -ück-. 384 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brücker 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 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Brucker | 96 |
| US United States | 2,577 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Brucker | 284 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Brucker | 1 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 194 | — | 2 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Bruecker | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Brucker | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | 177 | 1 in 47K | 177 | Brucker | 16 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Brücker 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 German, zu Brücke; zeigt die ü/u-Varianz der kartierten Namen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Marguerite Bruckerb. 16771677 - 18 Mar 1761
- Johann Jakob Bruckerb. 1696DEGerman historian of philosophy (1696-1770)
- Raymond Bruckerb. 1800FRFrench writer (1800–1875)
- Wilber M. Bruckerb. 1894USGovernor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Army (1894-1968)
- Herbert Bruckerb. 1898USAmerican journalist
- Roger Bruckerb. 1929USleading American cave explorer and author of books about caves
- Jane Bruckerb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Andreas Bruckerb. 1966DEGerman actor
- Felicitas Bruckerb. 1974GRDirector
- Mary C Bruckerresearcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 177 | #6,927 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Brücker?
- A machine transcription gives /bʁʏkʰɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Brücker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Herkunfts- und Wohnstättenname zu Brücke; zeigt die Vokalvariante -ück-.
- In which country does Brücker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Brücker in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brucker.
- How common is the name Brücker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,577 people named Brücker in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%BCckerThe 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, “Brücker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.