Bracht
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from place names, or from mhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɹækt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bracht is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from place names, or from mhd. braht 'noise'; also from Bercht-
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Bracht is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, second-person plural preterite of brechen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patronymisch zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd. beraht „glänzend, berühmt“ (vgl. Berchtold/Berthold); 1208 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymisch zum Rufnamen Brecht, Kurzform von Berchtold/Berthold; 1208 Belege. Varianten: Brachten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Dutch, singular past indicative of brengen
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)
- Eugen Brachtb. 1842CHGerman landscape painter (1842–1921)
- Franz Brachtb. 1877DEGerman jurist and politician (1877-1933)
- Erich Franz Eugen Brachtb. 1882DEGerman pathologist and gynecologist (1882-1969)
- Werner Brachtb. 1888DEGerman jurist
- Fritz Brachtb. 1899DEGerman politician (1899-1945)
- Theus Brachtb. 1900DEGerman politician (1900–1963)
- Frank Brachtb. 1910USAmerican film editor (1910-1985)
- Helmut Brachtb. 1929DEGerman football player and manager (1929-2011)
- Hans-Josef Brachtb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Mary Lynn BrachtUSAmerican writer
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 749 | #32,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 748 | #29,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 713 | #32,302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 433 | #19,371 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 97 | #19,541 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 51 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #12,314 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,285 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #50,304 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #119,077 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Bracht come from?
- from place names, or from mhd. braht 'noise'; also from Bercht- Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bracht?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹækt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bracht mean?
- Recorded meaning: from place names, or from mhd.
- In which country does Bracht have the most bearers?
- Bracht is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Bracht?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brachtThe 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, “Bracht”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.