Bräm

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bräm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short for Abraham.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 730(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 1.7K
  • USUnited States1 in 235K

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 Bräm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

23,669 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
162 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 730 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BrämLatin(measured from records)
บรามThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bram in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, BR Brazil and 3 more and Braem 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)

Short for Abraham.

Sources 2

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bräm 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.

Where Bräm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#9523,6691 in 73024KBram162
BE Belgium#306≈6,900 est.≈1 in 1.7K2.1KBram136
US United States—1,4171 in 235K1.4KBraem139
BR Brazil—426as Briam1 in 497K1.7KBram24
DE Germany—≈350 est.≈1 in 231KlistedBram65
CH Switzerland—≈100 est.≈1 in 83K472Bräm15
SE Sweden—771 in 133K77Bram12
NO Norway—≈46 est.≈1 in 120K86Bram10

23,669 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bräm is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Braṃ, Bram

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine, Belgium

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Bram, Брам, Brahm

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Bram, Brām

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia

    Also written Bram, Brám, Brâm

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, United States

    Also written Bram

  • Burmese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Belgium

    Also written Bram

  • Amharic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Also written Bram

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Hans Bräm, b. 1521Heinrich Bräm, b. 1540Heinrich Bräm, b. 1572Andreas Bräm, b. 1797Heinrich Bräm, b. 1883Walter Bräm, b. 1915Thüring Bräm, b. 1944

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bräm
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024472#2,758

Reference works 1

  • 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 Bräm mean, and where does it come from?
Short for Abraham. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary.
In which country does Bräm have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Bräm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bram.
Where is Bräm most common?
Bräm is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 730 people carrying it.
How common is the name Bräm?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23,669 people named Bräm, about 1 in 730 residents.
How common is Bräm compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Bräm is the 95th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Bräm” — the 95th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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