Brunella
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Teutonic; feminine form of the boy's name Bruna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɾuneʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brunella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 62K
- BRBrazil1 in 539K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Teutonic; feminine form of the boy's name Bruna.
Sources 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Brunella is read(measured from records)
Brunella is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish70%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brunella in Spanish.
- Italian10%
de Bruno com sufixo feminino singular -ella
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- English6.9%
Teutonic; feminine form of the boy's name Bruna.
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- Portuguese6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Brunella in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brunella counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Brunella | 46 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 682 | Brunella | 44 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Brunella | 3 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Brunella | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 393 | 1 in 539K | 393 | Brunella | 67 |
| UY Uruguay | #997 | 173 | 1 in 20K | 173 | Brunella | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Brunella is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme féminine/diminutive de Bruno, du latin brunus « brun »; fête de saint Bruno.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Féminin italien de Brun, « brun, sombre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Latinate feminine formation from BRUNO . Its formation may have been influenced by the existence of the name PRUNELLA .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis-Auguste Brunb. 1758CHnot in their usual nameSwiss painter (1758–1815)
- Brunella Gasperinib. 1918ITItalian writer (1918-1979)
- Brunella Bovob. 1932ITItalian actress (1932–2017)
- Brunella Schisab. 1953ITItalian journalist
- Brunella Brunob. 1959ITItalian archaeologist (born 1959)
- Brunella Longob. 1965ITItalian photographer (born 1965)
- Brunella Brunob. 1974ITItalian economist (born 1974)
- Brunella Carrafellib. 1977ITOlympic synchronized swimmer
- Brunella Filìb. 1982ITfilm director
- Brunella Torpocob. 1998PEPeruvian singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 682 | #210 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 393 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 392 | #15,786 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 276 | #11,268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 271 | #21,019 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 239 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 239 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 173 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 171 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 41 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 4 | #1,880 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brunella mean, and where does it come from?
- Teutonic; feminine form of the boy's name Bruna. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How common is the name Brunella?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 393 people named Brunella in 2022, about 1 in 539 thousand residents.
- How common is Brunella compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Brunella is the 997th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Brunella?
- A machine transcription gives /bɾuneʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Brunella a male or female name?
- Brunella is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Brunella?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Bruna.
- In which country does Brunella have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Brunella in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunella.
What do you want to know about Brunella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brunellaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brunella” — the 997th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.