Broos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: brittle, crisp, physically fragile with a tendency to break into small pieces
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/broːs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated · uncertain
Broos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.6K
- DEGermany≈1 in 260Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,800 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)brittle, crisp, physically fragile with a tendency to break into small pieces
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Broos 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 | 1,800 | 1 in 9.6K | 1.8K | Broos | 56 |
| BE Belgium | 1,318 | 1 in 8.9K | 1.3K | Broos | 59 |
| DE Germany | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Broos | 45 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Broos | 6 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 169 | Broos | 116 |
| AT Austria | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 521K | — | Broos | 8 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Broos | 1 |
1,800 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Auguste Broosb. 1894BEBelgian long-distance runner
- Harry Broosb. 1898NLDutch sprinter (1898-1954)
- Rinus Broosb. 1900NLDutch politician
- Ben Broosb. 1944NLDutch art historian (1944–2019)
- Karin Broosb. 1950SESwedish painter
- Hugo Broosb. 1952BEBelgian association football manager and player
- Christian Broosb. 1969DEGerman actor and association football player
- Frédérique Broosb. 1970BEBelgian film editor
- Sara Broosb. 1977SESwedish cinematographer
- Sabrina Broosb. 1985BEBelgian association football player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.8K | #737 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.3K | #925 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 169 | #110,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Broos mean, and where does it come from?
- brittle, crisp, physically fragile with a tendency to break into small pieces Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Broos?
- In the etymology graph, Ambrose and Giotto are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ambroos.
- How do you pronounce Broos?
- In Dutch /broːs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Broos have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Broos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled broos.
- Where is Broos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Broos is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Broos?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,800 people named Broos in 2007, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Broos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/broosThe 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, “Broos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.