Bruna

given name · Latin script

Meaning: feminine singular of bruno

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɾunɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bruna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 454(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 801
  • ITItaly≈1 in 3.8K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

466,413 people, 2022

Sources
262 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 454 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

feminine singular of bruno

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bruna 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.

Where Bruna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#82466,4131 in 454466KBruna232
IT Italy#701≈16,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K15Bruna135
PT Portugal#107≈13,000 est.≈1 in 801listedBruna120
ES Spain—4,5551 in 11K4.6KBruna84
AO Angola#234≈4,100 est.≈1 in 8K—Bruna18
HR Croatia—1,3951 in 3K2.1K——
UY Uruguay#246≈860 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Bruna22

466,413 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bruna is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Brazil, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Brüna, Bruña, Bruena, Brünä, Brùnã

  • Croatian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Slovenian

    Also written Bruña, Бруна, Brùnà, Bruňa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bruña

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Brüna, Bruña, Brunå, Brůna, Brūna

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Italy

    Also written Brůna, Brúna, Brunã, Brüna

  • Italian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Brunà, Bruña, Brunã, Brűnà, Brûnà

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

    Also written Bruña

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bruna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma feminina de Bruno

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Teutonic; brown-haired or dark-haired.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Italian, Variante di Bruni

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Scura, bruna

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

1960198020002020Bruna Papandrea, b. 1971Bruna Benites, b. 1985Bruna Cusí, b. 1986Bruna Abdullah, b. 1986Bruna Tenório, b. 1989Bruna Linzmeyer, b. 1992Bruna Marquezine, b. 1995Bruna de Paula, b. 1996Bruna Takahashi, b. 2000Bruna Vilamala Costa, b. 2002

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)

InformalOlá Bruna,Hi Bruna, (English)

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 83 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Bruna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022466K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—464K#51
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—464K#84
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—461K#14
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20208.3K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.6K#938
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.7K#561
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.7K#51
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20212.1K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.4K#464
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202415#707
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

Reference works 6

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 Bruna mean, and where does it come from?
feminine singular of bruno Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bruna have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 466 thousand people named Bruna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bruna.
Where is Bruna most common?
Bruna is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 454 people carrying it.
Is Bruna a male or female name?
Bruna 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.
How common is the name Bruna?
In Brazil, the national register counted 466,413 people named Bruna in 2022, about 1 in 454 residents.
How common is Bruna compared with other names?
In Brazil, Bruna is the 82nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Bruna?
A machine transcription gives /bɾunɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What are other forms of the name Bruna?
In the etymology graph, Brunella is a recorded short or pet form.

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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, “Bruna” — the 82nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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