Bruckner
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bruckner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.8K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 48Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bruckner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Brückner in DE Germany and Brueckner in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bruckner is read
(measured from records)Bruckner is one spelling over 2 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.
- English62%
A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Anton, Austrian composer/organist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German22%
a common surname originating as an occupation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
zu Brücke; u- statt ü-Schreibung in derselben Namengruppe. Verbreitet im Oberpfälzer Wald sowie verstreut in Bayern, Württemberg und im Rhein-Main-Gebiet.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Zu mhd. brucke/brücke/brügge, mnd. brugge ‚Brücke‘; Wohnstätten-/Herkunfts-/Berufsname. Ohne Umlaut u gegenüber ü; 4212 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
author cited on the page
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)Bruckner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #213 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Brückner | 123 |
| AT Austria | #134 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Bruckner | 90 |
| US United States | — | 2,666 | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Bruckner | 284 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Brueckner | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Bruckner | 13 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Bruckner | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 175 | 1 in 48K | 175 | Bruckner | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Bruckner | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Josef Anton Brucknerb. 1824ATAustrian composer (1824-1896)
- Henry Brucknerb. 1871USAmerican politician (1871–1942)
- Ferdinand Brucknerb. 1891ATAustrian-German writer and theatre manager (1891-1958)
- Karl Brucknerb. 1906ATAustrian writer (1906–1982)
- Pascal Brucknerb. 1948FRFrench writer
- Ronny Brucknerb. 1957BEbusinessperson (1957–2013)
- David Brucknerb. 1977USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Agnes Brucknerb. 1985USAmerican actress
- Amy Brucknerb. 1991USAmerican actress and singer
- Guillermo Viscarrab. 1993BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,751 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,060 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 68 | #14,835 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Bruckner mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bruckner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Bruckner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brückner.
- How common is the name Bruckner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,666 people named Bruckner in 2010, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
- How common is Bruckner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bruckner is the 213th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brucknerThe 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, “Bruckner” — the 213th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.