Bragen

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Bragen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 497K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 3.9Mfew records
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.1Mfew records

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.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈88 people, est.

Record sources
71 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 497K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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 the surname Bragen is found

(measured from records)

Bragen 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.

Where Bragen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈88 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Bragen71
GB United Kingdom≈17 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Bragen19
NO Norway111 in 497K11——
CA Canada≈4 est.≈1 in 10M—Bragen2
MA Morocco———Bragen3

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). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bragen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Bragén

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Bragen?
Mondonomo estimates about 88 people named Bragen in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bragen. After it come United Kingdom, Norway and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Bragen most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bragen is densest in Norway — about 1 in 497 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bragen?
In Norway, the national register counted 11 people named Bragen, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.

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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, “Bragen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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