Bracher
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: identical in meaning with atte brache; first attested Robert, William le Brechere 1245 Oseney (Oxfordshire)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈbɹækɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bracher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 173K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 700K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,099 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)identical in meaning with atte brache; first attested Robert, William le Brechere 1245 Oseney (Oxfordshire)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
How Bracher is read
(measured from records)Bracher is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English70%
identical in meaning with atte brache; first attested Robert, William le Brechere 1245 Oseney (Oxfordshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Robert, William le Brechere 1245 Oseney (O), 1297 MinAcctCo. Identical in meaning with atte brache. v. BRACH.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German12%
inflection of brach:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bracher 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 1,099 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Bracher | 30 |
| US United States | 475 | 1 in 700K | 518 | Bracher | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 173K | listed | Bracher | 102 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Bracher | 15 |
| AU Australia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Bracher | 59 |
| DK Denmark | 44 | 1 in 133K | 44 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Bracher | 1 |
1,099 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Frederick Bracherb. 1868GBEnglish cricketer (1868-1947)
- Herbert Bracherb. 1886AUcricketer (1886-1974)
- Rose Bracherb. 1894GBBritish botanist (1894-1941)
- Hans Bracherb. 1909CHSwiss architect (1909-1955)
- Karl Dietrich Bracherb. 1922DEGerman historian and political scientist (1922-2016)
- Barbara Olsonb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer (1955-2001)
- Beatriz Bracherb. 1961BRBrazilian screenwriter and author
- Elisa Bracherb. 1965BRBrazilian artist
- Todd Bracherb. 1974USindustrial designer
- Edward BracherGBBritish photographer (active 1852-1863)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 518 | #39,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 496 | #46,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 475 | #45,105 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 44 | #11,759 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bracher mean, and where does it come from?
- identical in meaning with atte brache; first attested Robert, William le Brechere 1245 Oseney (Oxfordshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bracher?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹækɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bracher have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Bracher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bracher.
- Where is Bracher most common?
- Bracher is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bracher?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,099 people named Bracher in 2024, about 1 in 7.6 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/bracherThe 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, “Bracher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.