Brocken

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Brocken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: piece (part of a larger whole).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 58K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 110K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 922K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

299 people, 2007

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

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:

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)

piece (part of a larger whole)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brocken 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 Brocken is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2991 in 58K299Brocken20
BE Belgium1071 in 110K107Brocken13
US United States≈85 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Brocken69
GB United Kingdom≈71 est.≈1 in 922K—Brocken46
DE Germany≈52 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Brocken24
AU Australia≈12 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Brocken10

299 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

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

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Bröcken

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Brocken mean, and where does it come from?
piece (part of a larger whole) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Brocken have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 299 people named Brocken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brocken.
Where is Brocken most common?
Brocken is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Brocken?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 299 people named Brocken in 2007, about 1 in 58 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, “Brocken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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