Brunétte
surname · Latin script
Brunétte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 24K
- CACanada≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brunette in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)- Frenchbrunette(measured from records)
- French rootbrun“brown”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Brunétte is found
(measured from records)Brunétte 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Brunette | 7 |
| US United States | 3,459 | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Brunette | 290 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Brunette | 111 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Brunette | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Brunette | 50 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 5 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 3 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Brunette | 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brunétte mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brunétte?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Brunétte in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunette. After it come United States, Canada, South Africa and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Brunétte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,459 people named Brunétte in 2010, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brunétte?
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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, “Brunétte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.