Brackenridge
loc · Latin script
Meaning: dweller by the bracken-covered ridge; first attested Nicholas de Bracanrig 1332 (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Brackenridge is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PAPanama
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)dweller by the bracken-covered ridge; first attested Nicholas de Bracanrig 1332
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brackenridge counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 467 | Brackenridge | 168 |
| PA Panama | — | — | Brackenridge | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Brackenridge | 44 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — | 1 |
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 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Brackenridge is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Nicholas de Bracanrig 1332 SRCu; John Brakanryg, Breckinrig 1454, 1634 Black; William Braikinrig 1629 ib. ‘Dweller by the bracken-covered ridge.’ There are five places named Brackenrigg in Cumberland and one in Lanarkshire.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, different form of Breckenridge
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)- Hugh Henry Brackenridgeb. 1748USAmerican writer, lawyer and judge
- William Dunlop Brackenridgeb. 1810USScottish-U.S. botanist (1810–1893)
- John Brackenridgeb. 1880USAmerican baseball player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brackenridge mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller by the bracken-covered ridge; first attested Nicholas de Bracanrig 1332 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Brackenridge have the most bearers?
- Brackenridge is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled brackenridge.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brackenridgeThe 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, “Brackenridge” — ranked 48797th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.