Branco
loc · Latin script
Meaning: white
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Branco is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- MZMozambique≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 53K
- HRCroatia1 in 190as Branko
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Branco itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
22,234 named Branko, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, 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 Branko in SI Slovenia, US United States and Бранко in RS Serbia.
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)
white
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Branco 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 22,234as Branko | 1 in 190 | 22K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9,558as Branko | 1 in 220 | 9.6K | Branko | 6 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 3,697as Бранко | 1 in 575 | 3.7K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 856as Branko | 1 in 389K | 2.8K | Branko | 226 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Branco | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 404as Branko | 1 in 25K | 404 | — | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 328 | 1 in 53K | 328 | — | 32 |
| RS Serbia | #824 | — | — | listed | Бранко | 7 |
22,234 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Branco is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, white (color)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
cor branca; color white
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Gloria
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Italian, flock (of sheep)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, stretcher-bearer
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)
- Luís de Freitas Brancob. 1890PTPortuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music (1890-1955)
- Paulo Brancob. 1950PTfilm producer, executive producer (born 1950)
- Joaquim Rafael Brancob. 1953STSão Tomé and Príncipe politician
- Branco Mellob. 1962BRBrazilian musician
- Silvio Brancob. 1966ITItalian boxer
- Cristina Brancob. 1972PTPortuguese singer
- Serge Brancob. 1980CMCameroonian footballer
- Luís Godinhob. 1985PTnot in their usual nameassociation football referee
- Juan Brancob. 1989ESFrench-Spanish lawyer, writer and political activist (born 1989)
- Branco van den Boomenb. 1995NLDutch footballer
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 49 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,060 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #48,052 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #77,227 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Branco mean, and where does it come from?
- white Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Branco have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Branko, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Branco?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 328 people named Branco, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Branco compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Branco is the 824th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brancoThe 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, “Branco” — the 824th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.