Brunes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present indicative of brunir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brunes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 186K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 8.8K
- SESweden1 in 340K
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)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,137 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present indicative of brunir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brunes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,137 | 1 in 186K | 1.1K | Brunes | 47 |
| NO Norway | 620 | 1 in 8.8K | 620 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 186 | 1 in 1.8M | 186 | Brunes | 15 |
| ES Spain | 81 | 1 in 617K | 81 | Brunes | 25 |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Brunes | 4 |
1,137 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Brunes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, feminine plural of brun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine plural of bru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lluís Nonell i Brunésb. 1926ESCatalan actor (1926-1982)
- Lars Brunesb. 1939NONorwegian politician
- Jonatan Braut Brunesb. 2000NONorwegian association football player
- Emma Braut Brunesb. 2003NONorwegian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Brunes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present indicative of brunir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Brunes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Brunes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunes.
- Where is Brunes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brunes is densest in Norway — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brunes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,137 people named Brunes, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brunes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brunesThe 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, “Brunes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.