Brodie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Brodie Castle, Moray, probably from a place name meaning 'muddy place'; also related to Brody/Brodi as forms of Brudski
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹoʊdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brodie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
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
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
6,585 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Brodie Castle, Moray, probably from a place name meaning 'muddy place'; also related to Brody/Brodi as forms of Brudski.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brodie 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 | 6,585 | 1 in 51K | 8.9K | Brodie | 375 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 195 | Brodie | 191 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 111 | Brodie | 201 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | Brodie | 160 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Brodie | 41 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 24 | Brodie | 84 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
6,585 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Brodie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Brodie, Moray; first attested Michael de Brothie 1311 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A close male friend, or a man deserving of respect; a bro.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Irish Gaelic; a ditch.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Irish, The Scottish form of O’Brollaghan. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Benjamin Collins Brodieb. 1783GBBritish surgeon
- Israel Brodieb. 1895GBBritish orthodox chief rabbi
- Don Brodieb. 1904USAmerican actor (1904–2001)
- Bernard Brodieb. 1907USAmerican biochemist (1907–1989)
- Bernard Brodieb. 1910USAmerican nuclear strategist (1910-1978)
- Steve Brodieb. 1919USAmerican actor (1919-1992)
- John Brodieb. 1935USAmerican football player and professional golfer (born 1935)
- Kevin Brodieb. 1952USAmerican actor
- Richard Brodieb. 1959USAmerican computer programmer
- Thomas Brodie-Sangsterb. 1990GBEnglish actor
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 46 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.6K | #5,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.4K | #5,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,585 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| US United States | wru 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 given-name tokens
- 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 Brodie mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Brodie Castle, Moray, probably from a place name meaning 'muddy place'; also related to Brody/Brodi as forms of Brudski. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Brodie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Brodie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brodie.
- How do you pronounce Brodie?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹoʊdi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Brodie?
- In the etymology graph, Brody is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Brodie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,585 people named Brodie in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brodieThe 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, “Brodie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.