Braw
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/bɾaw/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Braw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 224 people, counted by IBGE.
- SESweden1 in 138K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 945K
- USUnited States≈1 in 24Mfew records
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 138K (inferred from the name graph)
224 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Braw
- Spanish:/bɾaw/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/bɾɐw/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Braw is found
(measured from records)Braw 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 224 | 1 in 945K | 224 | Braw | 22 |
| SE Sweden | 74 | 1 in 138K | 74 | Braw | 10 |
| PH Philippines | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Braw | 14 |
| US United States | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Braw | 30 |
| CO Colombia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | — | Braw | 2 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Braw | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Braw | 1 |
224 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Braw is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, fright, terror, dread
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, fine, handsome, good
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)- Monica Brawb. 1945SESwedish writer
- Christian Brawb. 1948SESwedish writer and priest
- Elisabeth Brawb. 1973SESwedish journalist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Braw?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /bɾaw/; in Portuguese /bɾɐw/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Braw?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 224 people named Braw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braw. After it come Sweden, Philippines, United States and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Braw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Braw is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 138 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Braw?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 224 people named Braw, about 1 in 945 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Braw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brawThe 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, “Braw” — ranked 33472nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.