Briër
surname · Latin script
Briër is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Brear .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 164K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 183K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 34K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
1,813 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brier in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 3 more.
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(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Brear .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Briër 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,813 | 1 in 183K | 1.9K | Brier | 274 |
| FR France | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 83 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Brier | 18 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Brier | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Brier | 87 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 169K | 1 | Brier | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Brier | 17 |
1,813 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 2000; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Henk Briërb. 1932NLDutch pianist, conductor and composer
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 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Briër mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks. see Brear . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Briër have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Briër, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brier.
- How common is the name Briër?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,813 people named Briër in 2010, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bri%C3%ABrThe 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, “Briër”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.