Braam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a bramble, a common blackberry shrub (Rubus fruticosus)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹæəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Braam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 68K
- BEBelgium1 in 249K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,112 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a bramble, a common blackberry shrub (Rubus fruticosus)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Braam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 3,112 | 1 in 5.6K | 3.1K | Braam | 18 |
| US United States | 388 | 1 in 857K | 404 | Braam | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 47 | 1 in 249K | 47 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | Braam | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 3 |
3,112 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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)
Braam 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 nds (Germany), broom (shrub)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hendrik Braamb. 1879NLDutch trade unionist (1879–1956)
- Conny Braamb. 1948NLDutch writer
- Stella Braamb. 1962NLDutch journalist
- Sandra Braamb. 1978NLDutch basketball player
- Danique Braamb. 1995NLDutch cyclist
- Suzanne BraamNLDutch creator
- Ed BraamNLDutch politician
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 3.1K | #343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 404 | #54,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 388 | #53,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 357 | #54,152 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 47 | #27,332 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,745 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 11 | #614 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Braam mean, and where does it come from?
- a bramble, a common blackberry shrub (Rubus fruticosus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Braam?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹæəm/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Braam?
- In the etymology graph, Abramo, Ábrahám and Îbrahîm are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Braam have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Braam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braam.
- Where is Braam most common?
- Braam is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Braam?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,112 people named Braam in 2007, about 1 in 5.6 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/braamThe 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, “Braam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.