Breeden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Breeden or Bredon, place-name meaning ‘place by Bre Hill’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Breeden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K
- ISIceland≈1 in 28K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Breeden or Bredon, place-name meaning ‘place by Bre Hill’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Breeden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Breeden | 3 |
| US United States | 11,395 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Breeden | 348 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Breeden | 93 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Breeden | 3 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Breeden | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Breeden | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Breeden | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Breeden | 4 |
| IS Iceland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Breeden | 1 |
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. 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)
Breeden is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, or Bredon in S Worcs., which are so called from the Brit, term bre hill + the tautologous OE addition dun (see name Brace (cf. Brackley) + OE tim enclosure, settle¬ ment.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Latvian, Trapes muiža, kas atradās Jelgavas apriņķa Elejas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Brick Breedenb. 1904USCollege basketball coach; Montana State Senator (1904-1977)
- Leon Breedenb. 1921USAmerican musician (1921-2010)
- Scott Breedenb. 1937USAmerican baseball player (1937-2006)
- Hal Breedenb. 1944USAmerican baseball player (1944-2021)
- David Breedenb. 1946USAmerican classical clarinet
- Richard C. Breedenb. 1949USMember of the US Securities and Exchange commission
- Louis Breedenb. 1953USplayer of American football
- Joe Breedenb. 1956USbaseball coach
- Elaine Breedenb. 1988USAmerican swimmer
- Shirley BreedenUSAmerican politician
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 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,008 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,343 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Breeden mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Breeden or Bredon, place-name meaning ‘place by Bre Hill’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Breeden have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Breeden in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breeden.
- How common is the name Breeden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,395 people named Breeden in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/breedenThe 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, “Breeden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.