Brauer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: brewer (male or of unspecified gender)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɹawə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brauer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 68K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bräuer in AT Austria.
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)
brewer (male or of unspecified gender)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brauer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #243 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Brauer | 169 |
| US United States | — | 4,906 | 1 in 68K | 5K | Brauer | 316 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Brauer | 72 |
| PL Poland | — | 642 | 1 in 60K | 326 | Brauer | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Brauer | 69 |
| AT Austria | #848 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bräuer | 35 |
| DK Denmark | — | 186 | 1 in 32K | 186 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Brauer | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 33 | — | 8 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-1 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Brauer 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, Berufsname zu brauen 'Bier herstellen'; die Karte zeigt Tonvokal-Varianten au, äu und eu (bzw. monophthongische/sekundäre Formen) im Familiennamenbestand.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu Brauer 'Bierbrauer'; die Karte zeigt Haupttonvokalismus und Diphthongvarianz (au, äu, ei, eu, oi) in den Schreibungen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. briuwer/brouwer, mnd. brûwer 'Brauer'; 5667 Belege; zeigt die Verhochdeutschung von nd. û zu au und teils Umlaut.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu brauen ‘Bier herstellen’; belegt mit 5667 Trägern. Karte zeigt Diphthongvarianz au/äu/ei/eu/oi.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname; genannt zusammen mit Bräu/Bräuer als Vokalismus-Variante. Demonstriert Umlaut- und Ableitungsvariation im Berufsnamenbestand.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Friedrich Moritz Brauerb. 1832ATAustrian entomologist (1832-1904)
- Max Brauerb. 1887DEGerman politician (1887-1973)
- Alfred Theodor Brauerb. 1894DEGerman-American mathematician
- Richard Brauerb. 1901DEmathematician (1901-1977)
- Arik Brauerb. 1929ATAustrian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, singer and poet (1929–2021)
- Charles Brauerb. 1935DEGerman actor
- Theodor Brauerb. 1949DEGerman politician
- Timna Brauerb. 1961ATAustrian singer
- Magdalena Stużyńska-Brauerb. 1974PLPolish actress
- Dmitry Brauerb. 1977RURussian 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)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,858 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #7,038 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 326 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 326 | #10,001 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 316 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 316 | #10,495 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 186 | #2,750 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 33 | #3,160 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 31 | #3,467 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Brauer mean, and where does it come from?
- brewer (male or of unspecified gender) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brauer?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹawə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brauer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Brauer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brauer.
- How common is the name Brauer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,906 people named Brauer in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Brauer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Brauer is the 243rd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brauerThe 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, “Brauer” — the 243rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.