Brazier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A worker in brass
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Brazier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 28K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A worker in brass.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brazier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Brazier | 192 |
| US United States | 3,240 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Brazier | 304 |
| AU Australia | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Brazier | 106 |
| FR France | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 81 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Brazier | 83 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Brazier | 52 |
| IE Ireland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Brazier | 27 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 28 | 1 in 1.9K | 28 | — | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Brazier is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, worker in brass
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)- Eugénie Brazierb. 1895FRFrench chef (1895–1977)
- Julian Brazierb. 1953GBBritish politician (born 1953)
- Colin Brazierb. 1968GBUK news presenter
- Caroline Brazierb. 1970AUAustralian actress
- Brendan Brazierb. 1975CACanadian triathlete, publisher, writer, editor
- Matt Brazierb. 1976GBEnglish footballer (1976-2019)
- Jeff Brazierb. 1979GBBritish television personality (born 1979)
- Lily Brazierb. 1986USAmerican actress
- Kelly Brazierb. 1989NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Donavan Brazierb. 1997USAmerican athletics competitor
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,813 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 147 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 147 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 75 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Brazier mean, and where does it come from?
- A worker in brass. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Brazier?
- In the etymology graph, Brass and Brasier are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Brazier?
- In English /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Brazier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Brazier in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brazier.
- Where is Brazier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brazier is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brazier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,240 people named Brazier in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brazier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brazierThe 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, “Brazier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.