# Brahm (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/brahm/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 840 |
| US rank (2010) | 28,408 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 367,554 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.4% (870 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German and Jewish surname, reduced from Abraham. * Also as a German surname, from a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *brām (“gorse, bramble”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Brahm in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Similar surnames

Brehm, Brim, Brame, Byram, Brum, Bream, Barham, Braham, Bran, Brahimi, Brown, Bryan.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.