Bråthen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/broːthn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bråthen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 857(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 126K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 857 (inferred from the name graph)
6,380 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bråthen 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 | #254 | 6,380 | 1 in 857 | 6.4K | Bråthen | 46 |
| SE Sweden | — | 81 | 1 in 126K | 81 | Bråthen | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 180M | — | Bråthen | 10 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
6,380 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Terje Bråthenb. 1949NONorwegian politician
- Tom Bråthenb. 1953NONorwegian singer
- Tore Bråthenb. 1954NONorwegian jurist
- Stein Bråthenb. 1954NONorwegian racing cyclist
- Bjørn Terje Bråthenb. 1958NONorwegian singer and musician
- Stephen Bråthenb. 1964NONorwegian politician
- Clas Brede Bråthenb. 1968NONorwegian ski jumper
- Trond Bråthenb. 1977NOmusician (1977-2012)
- Espen Andersen Bråthenb. 1983NONorwegian born Danish mass murderer
- Erik Mellevold Bråthenb. 1987NONorwegian footballer
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.4K | #123 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81 | #8,544 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #25,028 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #312,822 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Bråthen?
- A machine transcription gives /broːthn̩/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Bråthen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Bråthen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bråthen.
- Where is Bråthen most common?
- Bråthen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 857 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bråthen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6,380 people named Bråthen, about 1 in 857 residents.
- How common is Bråthen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bråthen is the 254th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bråthen?
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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%A5thenThe 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, “Bråthen” — the 254th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.