Brama
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɹæmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brama is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. In English, recorded as Archaic form of Brahma.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brama is read(measured from records)
Brama is one spelling over 5 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.
- English40%
Archaic form of Brahma.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brama in Indonesian.
- Spanish6.6%
rut, mating season
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brama in Hindi.
- Dutch5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brama in Dutch.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Brama 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 245 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 34 | — |
| IN India | — | 14 | — |
| IT Italy | — | listed | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Brama is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of braim (“fart”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, phylactery (box used by Jews during prayer, containing passages from the Bible written on parchment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of bramer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, longing, yearning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 245 | #8,490 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #55,710 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 39 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 39 | #58,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #98,266 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Brama?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹæmə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Brama mean?
- In English, Archaic form of Brahma.
- In which country does Brama have the most bearers?
- Brama is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Brama?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bramaThe 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, “Brama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.