Bron
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bron is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 2,733 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
- UYUruguay1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bron itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,733 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bron in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Broen in NL Netherlands, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 1 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): scattered in England.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bron is found
(measured from records)Bron 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 2,733 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Broen | 63 |
| FR France | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 220 | Bron | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 744 | 1 in 11K | 744 | — | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Broen | 15 |
| NO Norway | 602as Broen | 1 in 9.1K | 602 | Broen | 31 |
| DK Denmark | 155as Broen | 1 in 38K | 155 | Broen | 30 |
2,733 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007, counting the spelling bron. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Bron is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite singular of bro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, white horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, to burn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, trachea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, breast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, source
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)- Gerry Bronb. 1933GBEnglish music producer (1933–2012)
- Eleanor Bronb. 1938GBBritish stage, film and television actress and author
- Zakhar Bronb. 1947RURussian musician
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)48 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bron mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bron?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Bron, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled broen. After it come France, Switzerland, South Africa and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bron most common?
- Bron is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bron?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,733 people named Bron in 2007, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bron?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bronThe 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, “Bron” — ranked 397th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.