Brinson
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɹɪnsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brinson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Hants and Dorset; Middx;. see Brimson .
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 4.3K
- IEIreland≈1 in 14K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Hants and Dorset; Middx;. see Brimson .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brinson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Brinson | 2 |
| US United States | — | 12,303 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Brinson | 370 |
| GH Ghana | #315 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Brinson | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Brinson | 6 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Brinson | 5 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Brinson | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Brinson | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Brinson | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Brinson | 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. 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)
- Samuel M. Brinsonb. 1870USAmerican politician (1870–1922)
- Hal F. Brinsonb. 1933USPh.D. Stanford University 1965
- Gary P. Brinsonb. 1944USAmerican businessman
- Larry Brinsonb. 1954USAmerican college football coach and former college and professional football player
- Randy Brinsonb. 1957USAmerican activist and gastroenterologist
- Dana Brinsonb. 1965USAmerican football player
- Savannah Brinsonb. 1986USLeBron James's wife
- Lewis Brinsonb. 1994USAmerican professional baseball player
- J. Alex Brinsonactor
- L. Catherine BrinsonUSAmerican materials scientist
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 11 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,895 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Brinson mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Hants and Dorset; Middx;. see Brimson . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Brinson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɪnsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brinson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Brinson in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brinson.
- How common is the name Brinson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,303 people named Brinson in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Brinson compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Brinson is the 315th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brinsonThe 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, “Brinson” — the 315th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.