Bredin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhridin, a diminutive form of Mac Giolla Bhrighde
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹɛdɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bredin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 30K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 72K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
336 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhridin, a diminutive form of Mac Giolla Bhrighde
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bredin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 336 | 1 in 30K | 336 | Bredin | 3 |
| US United States | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 232 | Bredin | 15 |
| NO Norway | 76 | 1 in 72K | 76 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
336 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
- Louis Bredinb. 1738FRFrench veterinarian
- Rae Sloan Bredinb. 1880USAmerican painter and teacher, 1881-1933
- Jean-Denis Bredinb. 1929FRFrench Lawyer and writer (1929–2021)
- Patricia Bredinb. 1935GBBritish actress, singer (1935–2023)
- Gary Bredinb. 1948CACanadian ice hockey player
- Roger Bredinb. 1953SESwedish male curler
- Frédérique Bredinb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Kristian Bredinb. 1964SESwedish composer
- David Bredinb. 1973DEGerman actor
- Correne Bredinb. 1980CACanadian ice hockey player
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 336 | #2,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #19,503 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,657 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #313,101 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bredin mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Bhridin, a diminutive form of Mac Giolla Bhrighde Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bredin?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹɛdɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bredin have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 336 people named Bredin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bredin.
- Where is Bredin most common?
- Bredin is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bredin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 336 people named Bredin, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bredinThe 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, “Bredin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.