Braunschweiger
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Pertaining to the city of Braunschweig in Germany
Braunschweiger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 255K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
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
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
137 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pertaining to the city of Braunschweig in Germany.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Braunschweiger is read(measured from records)
Braunschweiger 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.
- English60%
Pertaining to the city of Braunschweig in Germany.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German27%
a native or inhabitant of Braunschweig
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
toponymic surname: Herkunftsname zu den -wik-Orten Braunschweig/Brunswick; 111 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Toponymic surname from Braunschweig; bearers 111 (Br(a)unschweiger 21+90).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Braunschweiger 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 | 137 | 1 in 2.4M | 147 | Braunschweiger | 62 |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Braunschweiger | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 16 | 1 in 1.1M | 16 | Braunschweiger | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21M | listed | Braunschweiger | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Braunschweiger | 5 |
137 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: the dfa-band-4 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Braunschweiger is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
As Brown in US and UK.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)
- Daniel Braunschweigerb. 1862CZHolocaust victim (born 1862)
- Helene Braunschweigerb. 1870CZHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Sophie Riederb. 1874DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1874)
- Alfred Braunschweigerb. 1885DEdiver (1885–1952)
- Gutta Neumannb. 1888DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1888)
- Else Braunschweigerb. 1889DEHolocaust victim (born 1889)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 137 | #125,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 16 | #54,330 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| 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
- What does the name Braunschweiger mean, and where does it come from?
- Pertaining to the city of Braunschweig in Germany. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Braunschweiger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 137 people named Braunschweiger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braunschweiger.
- Where is Braunschweiger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Braunschweiger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 255 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Braunschweiger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137 people named Braunschweiger in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million 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, “Braunschweiger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.