Braz
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɾaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Braz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 2.5K
- USUnited States1 in 398K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Braz 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 | #167 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 13K | Braz | 173 |
| PT Portugal | #220 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Braz | 109 |
| AO Angola | #320 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Braz | 20 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 154 | Braz | 4 |
| US United States | — | 835 | 1 in 398K | 930 | Braz | 168 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 254 | 1 in 13K | 254 | Braz | 15 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Braz 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 French, District of São Paulo, Brazil (Brás in Portuguese)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Abbreviation of Brazil.
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)
- Valdivino Brazb. 1942BRBrazilian writer and poet
- João Braz de Avizb. 1947BRCatholic cardinal
- Philippe Brazb. 1959FRFrench playwright and poet
- Félix Brazb. 1966LULuxembourgish politician (born 1966)
- Adam Brazb. 1981CACanadian soccer player (born 1981)
- Chandelly Brazb. 1985BRBrazilian actress
- David Braz de Oliveira Filhob. 1987BRBrazilian footballer
- Bruno Rodriguesb. 1996PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1996)
- Clément Braz Afonsob. 1999FRFrench cyclist
- Fil Brazscreenwriter
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 128K | #232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 930 | #27,452 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 835 | #28,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 720 | #30,582 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 254 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 226 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 103 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Braz?
- A machine transcription gives /bɾaʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Braz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 162 thousand people named Braz in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled braz.
- How common is the name Braz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 835 people named Braz in 2010, about 1 in 398 thousand residents.
- How common is Braz compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Braz is the 167th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Braz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brazThe 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, “Braz” — the 167th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.