Brosnan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ó Brosnacháin/Ó Brósnáin, likely from brosna ‘fuel, kindling’; sept of Kerry and Limerick
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹɑsnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brosnan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- IEIreland
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ó Brosnacháin/Ó Brósnáin, likely from brosna ‘fuel, kindling’; sept of Kerry and Limerick
Sources 1
- Irish family names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Jim Brosnanb. 1929USAmerican baseball player
- John Brosnanb. 1947AUwriter (1947–2005)
- Pierce Brosnanb. 1953IEIrish actor (born 1953)
- Charlotte Brosnanb. 1971GBBritish actress (1971-2013)
- Chris Brosnanb. 1972GBBritish writer, director, and producer
- Sean Brosnanb. 1983USAmerican-British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- Courtney Brosnanb. 1995USIrish-American association football player
- Paris Brosnanb. 2001USAmerican film actor
- Marley May Cassandra Brosnanb. 2015daughter of Sean Brosnan
- Sarah BrosnanUSAmerican psychologist
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,971 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,335 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #215,709 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #9,247 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #253,193 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #265,613 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Brosnan mean, and where does it come from?
- Ó Brosnacháin/Ó Brósnáin, likely from brosna ‘fuel, kindling’; sept of Kerry and Limerick Recorded by Irish family names.
- How do you pronounce Brosnan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹɑsnən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brosnan have the most bearers?
- Brosnan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Brosnan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brosnanThe 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, “Brosnan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.