Brandeis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Brandys, German Brandeis, in the Czech Republic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bɹandejs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brandeis is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- HRCroatia
- DEGermany
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person from Brandys, German Brandeis, in the Czech Republic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Brandeis 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.
Place of origin, Brandeis on the river Elbe 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In English, A surname transferred from the place name
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, University, MA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Jan Adolf Brandeisb. 1818CZCzech painter and photographer (1818-1872)
- Eugen Brandeisb. 1846DEGerman engineer and colonial administrator (1846-1931)
- Antonietta Brandeisb. 1848CZItalian artist (1848-1926)
- Louis Brandeisb. 1856USAmerican Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)
- Adele Brandeisb. 1885USAmerican art administrator (1885–1975)
- Madeline Brandeisb. 1897USAmerican writer and film producer (1897-1937)
- Louis Brandeisb. 1902CZHolocaust victim (born 1902)
- Irma Brandeisb. 1905USAmerican university teacher (1905-1990)
- Philippe Brandeisb. 1959FRFrench organist
- Gayle Brandeisb. 1968USAmerican writer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 217 | #91,198 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 65 | #15,331 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 55 | #12,460 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 52 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #59,660 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #82,519 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #89,813 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Brandeis mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Brandys, German Brandeis, in the Czech Republic. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Brandeis?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹandejs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brandeis have the most bearers?
- Brandeis is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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, “Brandeis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.