Breuer
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Breuer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu brauen ‘Bier herstellen’; belegt mit 9915 Trägern.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 80K
- ATAustria≈1 in 12K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Berufsname zu brauen ‘Bier herstellen’; belegt mit 9915 Trägern. Karte zeigt Diphthongvarianz au/äu/ei/eu/oi.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
How Breuer is read(measured from records)
Breuer is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German49%
Berufsname zu brauen ‘Bier herstellen’; belegt mit 9915 Trägern. Karte zeigt Diphthongvarianz au/äu/ei/eu/oi.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Berufsname zu mhd. briuwer/brouwer 'Brauer'; 9915 Belege; zeigt die Entrundung von mhd. iu zu eu/ei.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
- English39%
Marcel, US architect, furniture
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
designer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Breuer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #196 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Breuer | 175 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Breuer | 4 |
| US United States | — | 4,138 | 1 in 80K | 4.1K | Breuer | 207 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 809 | 1 in 21K | 809 | Breuer | 39 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Breuer | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | 656 | 1 in 18K | 656 | Breuer | 47 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 194 | 1 in 43K | 194 | Breuer | 40 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Breuer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, mađarski moderni arhitekt i dizajner, od 1933. u SAD-u; autor prvog serijski izrađivanog namještaja od savijenih čeličnih cijevi; klasik modernog dizajna namještaja 20. st. (stolica Wassily )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Josef Breuerb. 1842ATAustrian physician (1842-1925)
- Marcel Breuerb. 1902USHungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
- Siegfried Breuerb. 1906ATAustrian actor (1906-1954)
- Lee Breuerb. 1937USAmerican theatre director (1937–2021)
- Torsten Breuerb. 1954DEGerman cinematographer
- Jacques Breuerb. 1956DEAustrian actor and film director (1956–2024)
- Randy Breuerb. 1960USAmerican basketball player (born 1960)
- Carsten Breuerb. 1964DEGerman general
- Jim Breuerb. 1967USAmerican actor and comedian
- Grit Breuerb. 1972DEEast German sprinter
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(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
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)
- 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
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
- What does the name Breuer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu brauen ‘Bier herstellen’; belegt mit 9915 Trägern.
- In which country does Breuer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Breuer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breuer.
- How common is the name Breuer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,138 people named Breuer in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Breuer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Breuer is the 196th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/breuerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Breuer” — the 196th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.