Brodsky
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɑdski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brodsky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 127K
- CZCzechia1 in 18K
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
- 339 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
4,083 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brodsky 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 | 4,083 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Brodsky | 339 |
| CZ Czechia | 588 | 1 in 18K | 588 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Brodsky | 55 |
| CA Canada | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Brodsky | 56 |
| IL Israel | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Brodsky | 45 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Brodsky | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Brodsky | 1 |
4,083 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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Brodsky is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Joseph, Russian-born US poet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Adolph Brodskyb. 1851RURussian musician (1851–1929)
- Isaak Brodskyb. 1883UARussian artist (1884-1939)
- Nicholas Brodzskyb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1905-1958)
- Jascha Brodskyb. 1907USAmerican musician (1907–1997)
- Vlastimil Brodskýb. 1920CZCzech actor (1920-2002)
- Joseph Brodskyb. 1940USRussian-American poet (1940-1996)
- Vadim Brodskib. 1950UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian musician
- Alexander Brodskyb. 1955RUSoviet architect (born 1955)
- Adriana Brodskyb. 1955ARactress
- Roberto Brodskyb. 1957CLChilean novelist and screenwriter
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,291 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Brodsky mean, and where does it come from?
- (Jewish) person from Brod or Brody, place names meaning 'place by a ford'; or from a medieval Polish nickname meaning 'bearded man'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Brodsky?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɑdski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brodsky have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Brodsky, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brodsky.
- Where is Brodsky most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brodsky is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brodsky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,083 people named Brodsky in 2010, about 1 in 81 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, “Brodsky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.