Brazil

Etymology 1
From, from , originally ‘red like an ember’, from , ultimately from , and from. Alternatively, this is a folk etymology for a word for the plant related to.

A discredited alternative etymology relates it to the mythical Celtic island of (or "Hy-Brasil"), possibly from Irish Uí Breasail, meaning "clan of Bresail".

Translations

 * Abkhaz: Бразилия
 * Adyghe: Бразилие
 * Afrikaans: Brasilië
 * Albanian: Brazil ,
 * Amharic: ብራዚል
 * Arabic: الْبَرَازِيل
 * Aramaic: ܒܪܐܙܝܠ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: Brazilii, Brazilia
 * Assamese: ব্ৰাজিল
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: Brasil
 * Belarusian: Бразі́лія
 * Bengali:
 * Bhutanese: བཱརཱ་ཛིལ
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: Брази́лия
 * Burmese: ဘရာဇီး
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Бразі́лія
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: Бразили
 * Cherokee: ᏆᏏᎵ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 巴西
 * Mandarin:
 * Southern Min: 巴西
 * Wu: 巴西
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ބްރެޒިލް, ބުރެޒިލް
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Farefare: Barazɩl
 * Faroese: Brasil, Brasilia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: Pindoráma, Vrasil
 * Gujarati: બ્રાઝીલ
 * Haitian Creole: Brezil
 * Hausa: Birazil
 * Hawaiian: Palakila
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ब्राज़िल,, ब्राजील
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Brasil
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: Brasil
 * Irish: Brasaíl
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalenjin: Brazili
 * Kamba: Mbkasili
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Buraziri
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ບຣາຊິລ, ບຣາຊິນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Brazil
 * Luo: Brasil
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Brazil
 * Malayalam: ബ്രസീൽ
 * Maltese: Brażil
 * Manx: Yn Vrasseel
 * Maori: Parīhi
 * Marathi: ब्राझिल
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: Бразилий
 * Meru: Braziri
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Бразил
 * Mongolian: ᠪᠷᠠᠽᠢᠯ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo: Bwazííl
 * Nepali: ब्राजिल
 * Nheengatu: Braziu
 * Norman: Brési
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Odia: ବ୍ରାଜିଲ
 * Ossetian: Бразили
 * Paraguayan Guaraní: Pindoráma
 * Pashto: برازيل
 * Persian:
 * Dari: بْرَازِیل, بَرَازِیل
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi: Burezile
 * Sanskrit: ब्रासील
 * Sardinian: Brasile
 * Scots: Brazil
 * Scottish Gaelic: Braisil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Бра̀зӣл
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: Brasyon, Brasyonkondre
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: པུ་རུ་ཟིལ
 * Tigrinya: ብራዚል
 * Tongan: Palāsili
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Braziliýa
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بْرَازِیل
 * Uyghur: برازىلىيە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Bra-xin, Ba Tây
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בראַזיל, בראַזיליע
 * Yoruba: Bìràsílì
 * Zhuang: Bahsih

Etymology 2
Reduced Anglicized form of, a byname meaning "strife".

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Brazil is the 6373rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5343 individuals. Brazil is most common among White (70.19%) and Black/African American (20.4%) individuals.