Brekke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to break
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brekke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 695(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 136K
- SESweden1 in 140K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 695 (inferred from the name graph)
7,870 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to break
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brekke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #815 | 7,870 | 1 in 695 | 7.9K | Brekke | 47 |
| US United States | — | 2,310 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Brekke | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 73 | 1 in 140K | 73 | Brekke | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 43 | 1 in 136K | 43 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
7,870 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Jacob Antoni Brekkeb. 1883NONorwegian chess player
- Wilhelm Brekkeb. 1887NONorwegian association football player (1887-1938)
- Sigurd Brekkeb. 1890NONorwegian association football player (1890-1958)
- Eden T. Brekkeb. 1893USAmerican businessman and politician
- Paal Brekkeb. 1923NONorwegian writer (1923–1993)
- Toril Brekkeb. 1949NONorwegian writer
- Pål Brekkeb. 1961NONorwegian physicist
- Jørgen Brekkeb. 1968NONorwegian journalist and writer
- Jan Egil Brekkeb. 1974NONorwegian footballer
- Leif Arne Brekkeb. 1977NONorwegian footballer
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Brekke mean, and where does it come from?
- to break Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brekke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brekke have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Brekke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brekke.
- Where is Brekke most common?
- Brekke is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 695 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brekke?
- In Norway, the national register counted 7,870 people named Brekke, about 1 in 695 residents.
- How common is Brekke compared with other names?
- In Norway, Brekke is the 815th most common surname of 90,139 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/brekkeThe 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, “Brekke” — the 815th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.