Bravë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bravë is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).
- HTHaiti≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 18K
- NLNetherlands1 in 211K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brave in US United States, NL Netherlands, NG Nigeria and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Frenchbrave(measured from records)
- Italianbravo(measured from records)
From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bravë is found
(measured from records)Bravë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Brave | 20 |
| US United States | — | 580 | 1 in 574K | 714 | Brave | 188 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Brave | 5 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 82 | 1 in 211K | 82 | Brave | 28 |
| GD Grenada | #124 | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Brave | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bravë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Bravë a male or female name?
- Bravë is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bravë?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Bravë in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, Algeria and Gabon; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bravë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 580 people named Bravë in 2010, about 1 in 574 thousand residents.
- How common is Bravë compared with other names?
- In Grenada, Bravë is the 124th most common surname of 3,427 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bravë?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brav%C3%ABThe 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, “Bravë” — the 124th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.