Brathwaite
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brathwaite is a surname, most frequently recorded in Barbados, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- BBBarbados1 in 152◐
- USUnited States1 in 97K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 139K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.0K ●
- Sources
- 285 ●
- 1 in 408 ◐
across 14 countries
35K records
Official registry-verified
Grenada
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB Barbados | #4 | 8,056 | 286 rec. | — | 3.7K | Brathwaite | 74 |
| US United States | — | 3,429 | 30K rec. | 1 in 97K | 3.5K | Brathwaite | 285 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,670 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Brathwaite | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | 820 | 743 rec. | — | — | Brathwaite | 74 |
| JM Jamaica | #326 | 449 | 453 rec. | — | — | Brathwaite | 2 |
| GD Grenada | #7 | 277△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 408 | 277 | Brathwaite | 11 |
| GY Guyana | #311 | 230 | 234 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 230 | Brathwaite | 8 |
| AU Australia | — | 223 | 213 rec. | — | — | Brathwaite | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 36 | 64 rec. | 1 in 480K | 36 | Brathwaite | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20 | — | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 257 rec. | 1 in 537K | 19 | Brathwaite | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 14 | 43 rec. | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English45K86%
- Spanish1.7K3%
- 1.4K3%
- English (Trinidad & Tobago)6651%
- French3121%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 45,380 | 86% |
| Spanish | 1,685 | 3% |
| 1,428 | 3% | |
| English (Trinidad & Tobago) | 665 | 1% |
| French | 312 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Nicholas Brathwaiteb. 1925GDGrenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada (1925–2016)
- Kamau Brathwaiteb. 1930BBBarbadian poet (1930–2020)
- Kwame Brathwaiteb. 1938USAfrican-American photographer (1938-2023)
- Normand Brathwaiteb. 1958CACanadian actor
- Gregory Brathwaiteb. 1969BBcricket umpire
- Fred Brathwaiteb. 1972CACanadian ice hockey player
- Ryan Brathwaiteb. 1988BBBarbadian hurdler
- Carlos Brathwaiteb. 1988BBcricketer
- PartyNextDoorb. 1993CAnot in their usual nameCanadian singer (born 1993)
- Rod BrathwaiteGBEnglish 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Brathwaite?
- We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Brathwaite (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Brathwaite have the most bearers?
- Brathwaite is most frequently recorded in Barbados, where it is most often spelled brathwaite.
- How common is Brathwaite compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Brathwaite is the 4th most common surname of 11,288 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brathwaite” — the 4th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.