Brix

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort »

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

/ˈbɹɪks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Brix is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 527K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 3.7K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 51K

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.

Denmark (measured from records)

1,604 people

Sources
174 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort ».

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brix 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 Brix is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark1,6041 in 3.7K1.6KBrix2
US United States6311 in 527K631Brix174
FR France≈360 est.≈1 in 186K26—4
AT Austria≈170 est.≈1 in 51K3——
NO Norway1061 in 52K106—9
CZ Czechia831 in 129K83—1
SE Sweden591 in 173K59Brix13

1,604 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Brix is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Brīx

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Bříx

47 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Brix is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Variante de Brice, du latin Bricius.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Maltese, verbal noun of barax

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Josef Brix, b. 1859Aage Brix, b. 1894Emil Brix, b. 1902Wolfgang Brix, b. 1930Silke Brix, b. 1951Peter Heinrich Brix, b. 1955Emil Brix, b. 1956Michel Brix, b. 1958Aglaja Brix, b. 1990Kristian Brix, b. 1990

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)

FormalDear Mr Brix,
InformalHi Brix,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Brix
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.6K#241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010631#35,622
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020619#38,482
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000609#35,053
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—106#14,455
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—83#19,610
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—82#8,477
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—59#10,976
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195157—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196145—

Reference works 6

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 Brix mean?
Recorded meaning: Forme apparentée à Brigitte/Brice; étymologie celtique brig- « haut, fort ».
How do you pronounce Brix?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɪks/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Brix have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Brix, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brix.
Where is Brix most common?
Brix is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Brix?
In Denmark, the national register counted 1,604 people named Brix, about 1 in 3.7 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, “Brix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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