Broë

surname · Latin script

Broë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire. from Ó Brugha, see Brew .

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 182K
  • SESweden1 in 309K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

542 people

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Broe in US United States.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire. from Ó Brugha, see Brew .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Broë 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.

Where Broë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark5421 in 11K542——
US United States4721 in 705K472Broe9
SE Sweden331 in 309K33——
NO Norway301 in 182K30——
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——

542 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Broe͏̈, Bröe, Broé, Broe

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Broë under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Broë mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Cheshire. from Ó Brugha, see Brew . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Broë have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 542 people named Broë, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Broë most common?
Broë is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Broë?
In Denmark, the national register counted 542 people named Broë, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.

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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, “Broë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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