# Brin (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/brin/  
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 | patronymic, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 808 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,279 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 382,111 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.5% (745 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Jewish surname, from Brin, the Yiddish name for Brno. * Also as a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, similar to Brill. * As a French surname, from the adjective brin (“loud, quarrelsome”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Brin 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) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 6.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Brin in the United States.

## People named Brin

- Sergey Brin, American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
- David Brin, American scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)

## Similar surnames

Brown, Braun, Bruno, Breen, Born, Brian, Brann, Brune, Brien, Bruhn, Brun, Bruni.

## 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.