Brouwers
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brouwers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5.3K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
6,188 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brouwers 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 | #203 | 6,188 | 1 in 2.8K | 6.2K | Brouwers | 110 |
| BE Belgium | #362 | 2,213 | 1 in 5.3K | 2.2K | Brouwers | 75 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 126K | listed | Brouwers | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Brouwers | 11 |
| US United States | — | 238 | 1 in 1.4M | 252 | Brouwers | 118 |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | Brouwers | 8 |
6,188 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); the dfa-band-1 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Dolf Brouwersb. 1912NLDutch comedian and singer (1912–1997)
- José Brouwersb. 1931BEBelgian theatre director, writer and playwright
- Eef Brouwersb. 1939NLDutch journalist (1939–2018)
- Jeroen Brouwersb. 1940NLDutch writer (1940–2022)
- Marco Brouwersb. 1958NLDutch volleyball player
- Roel Brouwersb. 1981NLDutch footballer
- Laura Brouwersb. 1988NLcricketer
- Davy Brouwersb. 1988BEBelgian footballer
- Evert Brouwersb. 1990NLDutch footballer
- Luuk Brouwersb. 1998NLDutch 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6.2K | #117 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.2K | #441 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.1K | #467 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 209 | #83,618 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,638 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Brouwers have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Brouwers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brouwers.
- Where is Brouwers most common?
- Brouwers is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brouwers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,188 people named Brouwers in 2007, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Brouwers compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Brouwers is the 203rd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brouwersThe 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, “Brouwers” — the 203rd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.