Broomfield
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from Broomfield (Essex, Kent, Somerset), Bromfield (Cumberland, Salop), or a residence near broom-covered open land; first attested Hamo de Bromfeld 1275
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Broomfield is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 425K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 683K
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
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 Broomfield 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 425K (inferred from the name graph)
11,842 named Brumfield, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brumfield in US United States.
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)from Broomfield (Essex, Kent, Somerset), Bromfield (Cumberland, Salop), or a residence near broom-covered open land; first attested Hamo de Bromfeld 1275
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where the surname Broomfield is found
(measured from records)Broomfield 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 | 11,842as Brumfield | 1 in 28K | 12K | Brumfield | 10 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 12 | 1 in 425K | 12 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6as Brumfield | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
11,842 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)Broomfield 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 English, places named from OE brom broom, gorse + feld open country, e.g. Broomfield in Essex, Kent, and Somerset, or Bromfield in Cumb. and Shrops. The name is now most common in Lancs. Var.: Bromfield.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A placename:
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)- William Broomfieldb. 1922USAmerican politician
- Nick Broomfieldb. 1948GBBritish film director
- Eugene Wildeb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Broomfield mean, and where does it come from?
- from Broomfield (Essex, Kent, Somerset), Bromfield (Cumberland, Salop), or a residence near broom-covered open land; first attested Hamo de Bromfeld 1275 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Broomfield?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Brumfield, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Costa Rica, Norway and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Broomfield most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Broomfield is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 425 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Broomfield?
- In Spain, the national register counted 25 people named Broomfield, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/broomfieldThe 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, “Broomfield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.