Brida
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: bridle (headgear for horse) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈbɾi.da/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Brida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 178K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 210K
- HRCroatia1 in 384K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Brida
- Portuguese:/ˈbɾi.da/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ˈbɾi.ð̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bridle (headgear for horse)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brida is read
(measured from records)Brida is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese34%
bridle (headgear for horse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brida in English.
- Spanish12%
bridle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.8%
third-person singular past historic of brider
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Brida is found
(measured from records)Brida 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 210K | 340 | Brida | 66 |
| IT Italy | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 155K | listed | Brida | 9 |
| US United States | 149 | 1 in 2.2M | 163 | Brida | 28 |
| FR France | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 501K | 17 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 53 | 1 in 858K | 53 | Brida | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | 19 | 1 in 178K | 19 | Brida | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 11 | 1 in 384K | 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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)Brida 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 Italian, clamp (type used on a lathe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kamārce - Ventas labā krasta pieteka Ventspils novadā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Marija Bridab. 1912HRCroatian philosopher (1912-1993)
- Mattia Dalla Bridab. 1986ITSwiss researcher
- Monica Abbiati BridaItalian archaeologist
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brida mean, and where does it come from?
- bridle (headgear for horse) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Brida?
- In the etymology graph, Bride is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Brida?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈbɾi.da/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈbɾi.ð̞a/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brida?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Brida in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brida. After it come Italy, United States, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Brida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 149 people named Brida in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Brida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bridaThe 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, “Brida” — ranked 9730th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.