Given name & surname
Brewster
“one who brews”
Brewster is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who brews.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who brews.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
It entered given-name use through an existing surname.
The story
Its naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Brewster through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 355
- 355 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 303 as a first name in 2020; 18,855 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brewster’s family of names
Brewster has a related form in Brewer. Brewster has a related form in Brewstere.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Brewster
- Brewster KahleAmerican computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archiveborn 1960
- Brewster H. ShawAmerican astronautborn 1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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