Brandenburg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from Brandenburg an der Havel; also from other places of the same name and the landscape name Mark Brandenburg; bearer count 2310
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brandenburg is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 35K
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
9,624 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from Brandenburg an der Havel; also from other places of the same name and the landscape name Mark Brandenburg; bearer count 2310.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brandenburg 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 | 9,624 | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | Brandenburg | 350 |
| DE Germany | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Brandenburg | 132 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,220 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | — | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Brandenburg | 42 |
| BR Brazil | 696 | 1 in 304K | 696 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Brandenburg | 19 |
9,624 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Brandenburg 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 German, Brandenburg (a state in northeast Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu Brandenburg; im Vergleichsblock als Verbreitungsangabe genannt, kein -dorf-Typ.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname auf -burg; 2310 Belege. Karte zeigt überwiegend u-Form statt o-Variante.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In English, city, Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, Dorothea Schlegel (geb.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Magdalena von Brandenburgb. 1582DELandgravine consort of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburgb. 1589DEDuchess born in Berlin
- Henriette Marie of Brandenburg-Schwedtb. 1702DEGranddaughter of the Great Elector and the daughter of Philip William of Brandenburg-Schwedt
- Erich Brandenburgb. 1868DEGerman historian (1868–1946)
- Hubertus Brandenburgb. 1923DERoman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1923-2009)
- Otto Herman Max Brandenburgb. 1934DKDanish musician and actor (1934-2007)
- Alain Erlande-Brandenburgb. 1937FRFrench art historian and curator (1937-2020)
- Larry Brandenburgb. 1948USAmerican actor
- Karlheinz Brandenburgb. 1954DEGerman audio engineer
- Daan Brandenburgb. 1987NLDutch chess 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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.6K | #3,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.3K | #3,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9K | #3,840 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.2K | #1,332 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 696 | #12,675 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Brandenburg mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from Brandenburg an der Havel; also from other places of the same name and the landscape name Mark Brandenburg; bearer count 2310. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Brandenburg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.6 thousand people named Brandenburg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brandenburg.
- How common is the name Brandenburg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,624 people named Brandenburg in 2010, about 1 in 35 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brandenburg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.