Brigante
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: brigand, bandit
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bɾiˈɡante/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Brigante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 84K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 263K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 390Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)present participle of brigare
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brigante is read
(measured from records)Brigante is one spelling over 4 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.
- English54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brigante in English.
- Spanish18%
brigand, bandit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brigante in Portuguese.
- Italian6.9%
present participle of brigare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. brigantis; v. Bergantino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Brigante 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Brigante | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 481 | 1 in 440K | 481 | — | — |
| US United States | 434 | 1 in 766K | 504 | Brigante | 149 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Brigante | 13 |
| AR Argentina | 173 | 1 in 263K | 173 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 100 | 1 in 84K | 100 | Brigante | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Brigante | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Brigante | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)- Gustavo Brigante Colonna Angelinib. 1878ITItalian journalist, poet and essayist (1878-1956)
- Max Briganteb. 1975ITItalian disc jockey and television presenter
- Kaib. 1990CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer and songwriter
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 504 | #40,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 499 | #46,089 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 481 | #17,666 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 434 | #48,628 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 173 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 100 | #11,072 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Brigante come from?
- present participle of brigare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Brigante?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /bɾiˈɡante/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /bɾiɡɐ̃te/; in Italian /briˈɡan.te/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Brigante mean?
- In Spanish, brigand, bandit
- In which country does Brigante have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Brigante in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brigante.
- How common is the name Brigante?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 481 people named Brigante, about 1 in 440 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brigante?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/briganteThe 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, “Brigante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.