Brenne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to burn (be consumed by fire)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/brɛnːə/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Brenne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 180Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 240K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,422 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to burn (be consumed by fire)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Brenne is found
(measured from records)Brenne 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 | 1,422 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.4K | Brenne | 22 |
| DE Germany | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Brenne | 51 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 33 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Brenne | 58 |
| BR Brazil | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | 95 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
1,422 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Brenne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hrx, to burn; to be on fire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-cfr, to burn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Nepatikšanas
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)- Werner Brenneb. 1931DEGerman politician (1931-2010)
- Thor Erling Brenneb. 1980NONorwegian film producer
- Simen Brenneb. 1981NONorwegian 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brenne mean, and where does it come from?
- to burn (be consumed by fire) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brenne?
- In Norwegian /brɛnːə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brenne?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Brenne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brenne. After it come Germany, France, United States and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Brenne most common?
- Brenne is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brenne?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,422 people named Brenne, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brenne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brenneThe 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, “Brenne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.