Brakke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: definite singular of brakk
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/brɑːkkə/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Brakke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 89K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 440Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 580Kfew 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
543 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)definite singular of brakk
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Brakke is found
(measured from records)Brakke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 543 | 1 in 613K | 543 | Brakke | 153 |
| NL Netherlands | 195 | 1 in 89K | 195 | Brakke | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 579K | — | Brakke | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Brakke | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Brakke | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Brakke | 1 |
543 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Karel Daniel Brakkeb. 1821NLDutch politician
- Adolf Brakkeb. 1901NLDutch politician
- David Brakkeb. 1961USAmerican church historian
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brakke mean, and where does it come from?
- definite singular of brakk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brakke?
- In Norwegian /brɑːkkə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brakke?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 543 people named Brakke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brakke. After it come Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Brakke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 543 people named Brakke in 2010, about 1 in 613 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brakke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brakkeThe 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, “Brakke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.