Brasseur
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: brewer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bʁa.sœʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Brasseur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K
- CACanada≈1 in 92Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name from OF brasseur/bracur; first attested Azo le Brascur 1168 P (K)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Brasseur is read
(measured from records)Brasseur is one spelling over 2 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.
- French69%
brewer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de brasseur, surnom d’un fabriquant de bière
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English24%
occupational name from OF brasseur/bracur; first attested Azo le Brascur 1168 P (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
occupational name from AngloNorman French braceour, brasseour ‘brewer’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Brasseur is found
(measured from records)Brasseur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 567 | Brasseur | 247 |
| BE Belgium | #408 | 2,585 | 1 in 4.5K | 2.6K | Brasseur | 71 |
| US United States | — | 707 | 1 in 470K | 707 | Brasseur | 98 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Brasseur | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Brasseur | 20 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Brasseur | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | Brasseur | 9 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pierre Brasseurb. 1905FRFrench actor (1905-1972)
- Isabelle Brasseurb. 1970CAfigure skater
- Alexandre Brasseurb. 1971FRFrench actor
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Brasseur come from?
- occupational name from OF brasseur/bracur; first attested Azo le Brascur 1168 P (K) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Brasseur?
- In French /bʁa.sœʁ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Brasseur mean?
- In French, brewer
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brasseur?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Brasseur in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brasseur. After it come Belgium, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Brasseur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brasseur is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brasseur?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,585 people named Brasseur in 2008, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Brasseur compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Brasseur is the 408th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brasseurThe 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, “Brasseur” — the 408th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.