Lay brother

Lay brother - non-ordained male member of a Roman Catholic religious institute. Article “Lay brother” in English Wikipedia has 25.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.84 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Lay brother”, its content was written by 89 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 359 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 441 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2089 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #77955 in December 2004
• Global: #61534 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #229718 in October 2015
• Global: #190371 in January 2015

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Laienbruder		29.9782
2	Italian (it) Frate converso		28.0492
3	English (en) Lay brother		25.5728
4	Thai (th) ภราดาฆราวาส		15.648
5	French (fr) Frère lai		14.367
6	Portuguese (pt) Irmão leigo		13.8099
7	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		13.1062
8	Hebrew (he) אח חילוני		11.6553
9	Arabic (ar) اخوة الاي		11.5561
10	Catalan (ca) Germà llec		6.3957

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lay brother" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lay brother		488 263
2	French (fr) Frère lai		264 532
3	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		199 080
4	German (de) Laienbruder		114 384
5	Polish (pl) Konwersi		42 381
6	Dutch (nl) Lekenbroeder		41 987
7	Italian (it) Frate converso		33 950
8	Thai (th) ภราดาฆราวาส		22 763
9	Russian (ru) Конверз		17 339
10	Portuguese (pt) Irmão leigo		16 231

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lay brother" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lay brother		3 207
2	French (fr) Frère lai		1 218
3	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		745
4	German (de) Laienbruder		409
5	Italian (it) Frate converso		227
6	Dutch (nl) Lekenbroeder		157
7	Russian (ru) Конверз		105
8	Polish (pl) Konwersi		103
9	Portuguese (pt) Irmão leigo		99
10	Thai (th) ภราดาฆราวาส		83

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Lay brother" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lay brother		89
2	French (fr) Frère lai		52
3	German (de) Laienbruder		46
4	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		32
5	Dutch (nl) Lekenbroeder		29
6	Italian (it) Frate converso		24
7	Estonian (et) Ilmikvend		14
8	Norwegian (no) Lekbror		14
9	Polish (pl) Konwersi		11
10	Hebrew (he) אח חילוני		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Lay brother" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Estonian (et) Ilmikvend		1
2	Arabic (ar) اخوة الاي		0
3	Catalan (ca) Germà llec		0
4	German (de) Laienbruder		0
5	English (en) Lay brother		0
6	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		0
7	Finnish (fi) Maallikkoveli		0
8	French (fr) Frère lai		0
9	Hebrew (he) אח חילוני		0
10	Italian (it) Frate converso		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Lay brother" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Frère lai		594
2	English (en) Lay brother		441
3	German (de) Laienbruder		379
4	Spanish (es) Hermano lego		153
5	Dutch (nl) Lekenbroeder		140
6	Portuguese (pt) Irmão leigo		77
7	Catalan (ca) Germà llec		75
8	Italian (it) Frate converso		54
9	Russian (ru) Конверз		49
10	Estonian (et) Ilmikvend		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اخوة الاي
ca	Catalan Germà llec
de	German Laienbruder
en	English Lay brother
es	Spanish Hermano lego
et	Estonian Ilmikvend
fi	Finnish Maallikkoveli
fr	French Frère lai
he	Hebrew אח חילוני
it	Italian Frate converso
nl	Dutch Lekenbroeder
no	Norwegian Lekbror
pl	Polish Konwersi
pt	Portuguese Irmão leigo
ru	Russian Конверз
sv	Swedish Lekbroder
th	Thai ภราดาฆราวาส
tr	Turkish Laik birader

Best Rank

English: #229718 10.2015

Global: #190371 01.2015

Best Rank

English: #77955 12.2004

Global: #61534 09.2004

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