Briand

surname · Latin script

Meaning: même origine que Brien

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Briand is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 460K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 33K
  • BEBelgium1 in 239K

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.

United States (measured from records)

723 people, 2010

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

même origine que Brien.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Briand is read(measured from records)

Briand is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French81%

    même origine que Brien.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • English15%

    Aristide, French statesman (Nobel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Briand 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.

Where Briand is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7231 in 460K808Briand184
CH Switzerland2571 in 33K257Briand18
BE Belgium491 in 239K49Briand5
ES Spain391 in 1.3M39—7
AR Argentina331 in 1.4M33——
DK Denmark171 in 345K26—1
FI Finland101 in 557K10—2

723 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Briand is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Canada, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Brïand

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Aristide Briand, b. 1862Pascale Briand, b. 1952Philippe Briand, b. 1960Manon Briand, b. 1964Anne Briand, b. 1968Arnaud Briand, b. 1970Ludwig Briand, b. 1981Ludovic Briand, b. 1982Jimmy Briand, b. 1985

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 31 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Briand
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020808#30,840
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000745#29,784
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010723#31,906
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024257#5,056
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200849#26,495
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—39#53,178
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—39#52,638
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—33—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—17#26,563
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#44,334
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • 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 Briand mean, and where does it come from?
même origine que Brien. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
In which country does Briand have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 723 people named Briand, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled briand.
Where is Briand most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Briand is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Briand?
In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Briand in 2010, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.

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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, “Briand”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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