Bromo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bromo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 359K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 68M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 359K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bromo is read(measured from records)
Bromo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bromo in Spanish.
- Indonesian6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bromo in Indonesian.
- Portuguese5.7%
bromine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bromo in Italian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bromo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Bromo | 16 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 68M | listed | Bromo | 16 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Bromo 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 Latin, dative/ablative singular of bromos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, nonstandard spelling of brama
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bromo mean, and where does it come from?
- A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bromo?
- In the etymology graph, Broma is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bromo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 304 people named Bromo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bromo.
- How common is the name Bromo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 300 people in the Philippines have Bromo as their first surname, about 1 in 359 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bromoThe 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, “Bromo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.