Brasch

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Slavic brjaza; also from nd

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈbɹæʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Brasch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 305K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 4.1M
  • DKDenmark1 in 90K

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)

1,091 people, 2010

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Braesch in US United States.

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)

from Slavic brjaza; also from nd. bras/bresch 'noise, uproar'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brasch 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.

Where Brasch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0911 in 305K1.1KBraesch149
SE Sweden671 in 152K67Brasch6
DK Denmark651 in 90K65——
DE Germany≈20 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Brasch78
NO Norway81 in 683K8—3

1,091 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling brasch. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Brasch is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Bräsch

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Moritz Brasch, b. 1843Hans Brasch, b. 1882Charles Brasch, b. 1909Helmut Brasch, b. 1912Horst Brasch, b. 1922Thomas Brasch, b. 1945Klaus Brasch, b. 1950Peter Brasch, b. 1955Marion Brasch, b. 1961

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)

FormalDear Brasch,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Brasch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,968
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,132
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—67#9,963
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—65#8,262
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#62,438
US United Stateswru 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)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

Where does the name Brasch come from?
from Slavic brjaza; also from nd. bras/bresch 'noise, uproar' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Brasch?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹæʃ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Brasch mean?
Recorded meaning: from Slavic brjaza; also from nd.
In which country does Brasch have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Brasch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braesch.
Where is Brasch most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brasch is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 90 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Brasch?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,091 people named Brasch in 2010, about 1 in 305 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.

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, “Brasch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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