Brauen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to brew
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈbraʊ̯ən/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Brauen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Germany it is the 21st most common surname.
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 670as Braun(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 720as Braun
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Kas Bryant
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Brauen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 454 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 674 (inferred from the name graph)
192,773 named Bryant, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est., as Braun
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Braun in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 2 more and Bryon in BR Brazil.
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)to brew
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brauen 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 | #860 | 192,773as Bryant | 1 in 1.7K | 1M | Braun | 454 |
| DE Germany | #21 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 716 | listed | Braun | 283 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,008as Braun | 1 in 24K | 72K | Bryon | 22 |
| CA Canada | #600 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 11 | Braun | 179 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 25K | — | 8 |
| AT Austria | #138 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 197 | Braun | 100 |
| CH Switzerland | #168 | 3,329as Braun | 1 in 2.5K | 3.3K | Braun | 86 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 674 | 1.4K | — | 28 |
192,773 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling bryant. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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)- Martin Brauenb. 1948CHSwiss anthropologist
- Yangzom Brauenb. 1980CHSwiss actress and writer
- Tashi Brauenb. 1980CHTibetan-Swiss Artist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 130 | #130,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 112 | #10,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 111 | #138,741 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 52 | #102,017 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Brauen mean, and where does it come from?
- to brew Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brauen?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈbraʊ̯ən/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /bɾawẽ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Brauen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 193 thousand people named Bryant, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Brauen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192,773 people named Bryant in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Brauen compared with other names?
- In the United States, Brauen is the 860th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brauenThe 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, “Brauen” — the 860th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.