Bråten
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/broːtn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bråten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 150K
- SESweden1 in 208K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,416 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Braten in US United States.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bråten 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #288 | 5,416 | 1 in 1K | 5.4K | Bråten | 52 |
| US United States | — | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Braten | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 49 | 1 in 208K | 49 | Bråten | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 39 | 1 in 150K | 39 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
5,416 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bråten is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite singular of bråte
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)- Elsa Rastad Bråtenb. 1918NONorwegian politician (1918-1999)
- Stein Bratenb. 1934NONorwegian sociologist
- Inge Bråtenb. 1948NONorwegian coach for cross-country skiing (1948-2012)
- Steinar Bråtenb. 1962NONorwegian ski jumper and coach
- Gro Bråtenb. 1964NONorwegian politician
- Beret Bråtenb. 1965NONorwegian politician
- Charlotte Bråtenb. 1975NONorwegian writer
- Gjermund Bråtenb. 1990NONorwegian snowboarder
- Øystein Bråtenb. 1995NONorwegian freestyle skier
- Ingebjørg Bråtenb. 1999NONorwegian ski jumper
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5.4K | #143 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #12,834 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #13,269 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bråten?
- A machine transcription gives /broːtn̩/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Bråten have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Bråten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bråten.
- Where is Bråten most common?
- Bråten is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bråten?
- In Norway, the national register counted 5,416 people named Bråten, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Bråten compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bråten is the 288th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bråten?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%A5tenThe 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, “Bråten” — the 288th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.