Braem

surname · Dutch · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Braem is a surname, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Dutch and French, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 731◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.1K
  • FRFrance1 in 87K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈26K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
148 ●

29K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 731 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

BramLatin · Western Frisian●45K records
บรามThai · Thai●7 records

Locally spelled Bram in NL Netherlands, BR Brazil, DE Germany and 17 more, Bräm in CH Switzerland, Burami in TH Thailand and Briam in LA Laos.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Braem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#20623,64414K rec.1 in 73124KBram148
BE Belgium#38711,9624.7K rec.—2.1KBraem123
FR France—4,0142.3K rec.—214Braem146
US United States—1,4093.4K rec.1 in 236K1.4KBraem131
DE Germany—706826 rec.—1Bram63
BR Brazil—426△103 rec.1 in 497K1.7KBram22
GB United Kingdom—214204 rec.—listedBram40
MX Mexico—161907 rec.——Bram41
PH Philippines—160140 rec.——Braem7
CH Switzerland—13095 rec.—472Bräm14
CA Canada—125128 rec.—2Bram27
TH Thailand—11170 rec.—#314,893Burami16

Roughly 24K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 731). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Dutch4.8K32%
  • French4.4K29%
  • German2.5K17%
  • English1.8K12%
  • Arabic5604%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Dutch4,81432%
French4,35229%
German2,48217%
English1,80112%
Arabic5604%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Braem is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname165 records spelled Braem5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Bræm

30 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.

Over time●

05010015019001920194019601980141 · 1971

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Braem in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189154
190174
191173
192179
193176
1941108
1951124
1961106
1971141
1981118
1991105

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Johan Braem, b. 1648Christian Braem, b. 1683Gothard Albert Braem, b. 1710Renaat Braem, b. 1910Pierre Braem, b. 1936Harald Braem, b. 1944Guido Jozef Braem, b. 1944Philippe Braem, b. 1957Mirko Braem, b. 1978

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●

Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Braem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082.1K#463
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—2K#479
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000194#88,825
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020189#101,718
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010181#99,845
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971141—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007134#14,965
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941108—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961106—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991105—

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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 32 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Braem?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Braem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Braem have the most bearers?
We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Braem in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bram.
Where is Braem most common?
Braem is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 731 people carrying it.
How common is Braem compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Braem is the 206th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Braem” — the 206th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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