Breytenbach
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/breːtənbɑx/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Breytenbach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 9.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
4 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Breytenbach 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Breytenbach | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
4 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)- Jan Breytenbachb. 1933ZASouth African military officer (1932–2024)
- Cloete Breytenbachb. 1933ZASouth Africa war photographer (1933-2019)
- Breyten Breytenbachb. 1939ZASouth African writer and painter (1939–2024)
- Kerneels Breytenbachb. 1952ZASouth African journalist
- Anna Breytenbachb. 1968ZAinterspecies communicator, animal activist and conservationist
- Coenraad Breytenbachb. 1970ZASouth African rugby union and rugby league footballer
- Donne Breytenbachb. 2002ZASouth African judoka
- Ruan Breytenbachb. 2002ZASouth African swimmer
- Jesse BreytenbachZASouth African illustrator and printmaker
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #215,637 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Breytenbach?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /breːtənbɑx/; in Swahili /ɓɾejtɛnbat͡ʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Breytenbach have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4 people named Breytenbach, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Breytenbach most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Breytenbach is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Breytenbach?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Breytenbach in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million 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/breytenbachThe 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, “Breytenbach”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.