Brana
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: brane (hypothetical object extending across a number of spatial dimensions).
- ESSpain1 in 28K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 100K
- USUnited States1 in 940K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Braña in AR Argentina, ES Spain, UY Uruguay and Branne in FR France.
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(measured from records)
brane (hypothetical object extending across a number of spatial dimensions)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 299K | 6 | Brana | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,816 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Braña | 54 |
| AR Argentina | — | 457 | 1 in 100K | 457 | Braña | 35 |
| FR France | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 185K | 46 | Branne | 28 |
| US United States | — | 354 | 1 in 940K | 491 | Brana | 77 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #765 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Brana | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 159 | 1 in 21K | 159 | Braña | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | — | — |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Brana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, feminine nominative/vocative singular of brany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, nominative singular feminine of brany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, heather (plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, harrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( SP , Hb , Lcq 114, Dv ), brama ( L-sar ap. A ). Brezo; brezal, matorral. "Brumasle [?]" SP . "( Erica scoparia ); cast. brezo de escobas; vasc. xillarra . En Labortano brana " Lcq . "Brande" Dv . "Espèce de gros serpolet dont on fait des balais. (Cf. brande ?)" Lh . Haragizko beso baten gañean pausatu nahi duena, mortuan sortzen den branaren pare izanen da. Ihartzea da haren zorthea . Mih 71.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Nicolae Branab. 1905RORomanian painter of the 20th century
- Pierre Branab. 1933FRFrench politician
- Sophie Branab. 1967FRFrench politician
- Carole Branab. 1985FRFrench actress
- Thierry Branab. 1986FRrugby union 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)
Attested in 39 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 491 | #46,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 363 | #53,420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 354 | #57,516 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 159 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,505 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #107,744 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,341 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Brana mean, and where does it come from?
- brane (hypothetical object extending across a number of spatial dimensions) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Brana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Brana in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brana.
- How common is the name Brana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,816 people named Brana, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Brana compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Brana is the 765th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Brana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/branaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Brana” — the 765th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.