Brathwaite
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɹəθweɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brathwaite is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 5th most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 97K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 98K
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
- 320 (measured from records)
- 1 in 408 (inferred from the name graph)
3,429 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brathwaite 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 | — | 3,429 | 1 in 97K | 3.5K | Brathwaite | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Brathwaite | 118 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Brathwaite | 96 |
| JM Jamaica | #360 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Brathwaite | 2 |
| GD Grenada | — | 277 | 1 in 408 | 277 | — | 11 |
| GY Guyana | #348 | 230 | 1 in 3.3K | 230 | Brathwaite | 7 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 5 | 1 in 20K | 5 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #5 | — | — | 3.7K | Brathwaite | 78 |
3,429 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; This page provides a comprehensive overview of Barbadian surnames, highlighting their cultural significance and historic; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Nicholas Brathwaiteb. 1925GDGrenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada (1925–2016)
- Kamau Brathwaiteb. 1930BBBarbadian poet (1930–2020)
- Kwame Brathwaiteb. 1938USAfrican-American photographer (1938-2023)
- Normand Brathwaiteb. 1958CACanadian actor
- Gregory Brathwaiteb. 1969BBcricket umpire
- Fred Brathwaiteb. 1972CACanadian ice hockey player
- Ryan Brathwaiteb. 1988BBBarbadian hurdler
- Carlos Brathwaiteb. 1988BBcricketer
- PartyNextDoorb. 1993CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer (born 1993)
- Rod BrathwaiteGBEnglish footballer
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,053 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,473 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 277 | #50 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 230 | #396 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 50 | #3 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice | 2025 | 47 | #4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 5 | #257 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Brathwaite?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹəθweɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brathwaite have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Brathwaite, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brathwaite.
- Where is Brathwaite most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brathwaite is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 408 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brathwaite?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,429 people named Brathwaite in 2010, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
- How common is Brathwaite compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Brathwaite is the 5th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brathwaiteThe 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, “Brathwaite” — the 5th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.