Braathen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/brɑɑthn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Braathen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 857as Bråthen(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 121K
- USUnited States1 in 3M
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 Braathen 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
6,380 named Bråthen
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brathen in UY Uruguay.
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)
Braathen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #121 | 6,380as Bråthen | 1 in 857 | 6.4K | Braathen | 83 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Braathen | 3 |
| US United States | — | 112 | 1 in 3M | 119 | Braathen | 68 |
| SE Sweden | — | 81as Bråthen | 1 in 126K | 81 | Braathen | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Braathen | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 18as Bråthen | 1 in 326K | 18 | Braathen | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Brathen | 1 |
6,380 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling bråthen. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Ludvig G. Braathenb. 1891NONorwegian entrepreneur (1891-1976)
- Maja Braathenb. 1896SESwedish artist (1896–1973)
- Alma Braathenb. 1906SESwedish journalist and author (1906-1967)
- Roald Braathenb. 1945NONorwegian politician
- Tove Braathenb. 1952NONorwegian author
- Alvar Braathenb. 1964NONorwegian geologist and professor at University of Oslo
- Kjerstin Braathenb. 1970NONorwegian banker and CEO
- Simen Braathenb. 1985NONorwegian director and filmmaker (born 1985)
- Lucas Braathenb. 2000NOBrazilian-Norwegian alpine skier
- Barbara BraathenUSAmerican art dealer, curator, and art writer
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
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 Braathen?
- A machine transcription gives /brɑɑthn̩/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Braathen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Bråthen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Braathen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 112 people named Braathen in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
- How common is Braathen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Braathen is the 121st most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Braathen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/braathenThe 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, “Braathen” — the 121st most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.