Bruno

given name · Latin script

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

Bruno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. In French, recorded as Related to brun ‘brown’; here ‘màu da sậm’.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 117(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 328
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 397

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)

645,929 people, 2022

#801 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
367 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 117 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BrunoLatin(measured from records)
ΜπρούνοGreek(measured from records)
ბრუნოGeorgian(measured from records)
브루노Hangul(measured from records)
БруноCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

(i) from an Italian nickname for someone with brown hair or a tanned complexion; (ii) from a surname based on the Germanic personal name Bruno.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bruno is read(measured from records)

Bruno 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.

  • Portuguese42%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bruno in Portuguese.

  • French24%

    Related to brun ‘brown’; here ‘màu da sậm’.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • Spanish18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bruno in Spanish.

  • English5.7%

    (i) from an Italian nickname for someone with brown hair or a tanned complexion; (ii) from a surname based on the Germanic personal name Bruno.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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)

Bruno 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 Bruno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#41645,9291 in 328668KBruno287
FR France—≈150,000 est.≈1 in 441221KBruno7
PT Portugal#18≈88,000 est.≈1 in 117listedBruno208
IT Italy#145≈82,000 est.≈1 in 763—Bruno201
AR Argentina#269≈51,000 est.≈1 in 89320KBruno153
CH Switzerland#68≈19,000 est.≈1 in 4311.1KBruno104
UY Uruguay#47≈8,500 est.≈1 in 397—Bruno107

645,929 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bruno is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Brüno, Bruño, Brůno, Brunô

  • English given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Switzerland, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Brunoe, Brueno, Brueño, Brünö, Brüno

  • Croatian given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Poland, United States, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Бруно, Brůno, Bruño, Brúnó, Brüno

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Bruñó, Brunó, Brun-O, Bruño, Brüno

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Brünô

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Italy, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Бруно, Bruño, Brûno

114 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)

Bruno is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Name of German origin in the 18th and 19th centuries, Non- nenweiher, Mahlberg area, Baden.

    as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

  • In German, short form from brun 'brown/breastplate'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • Germanic: ‘the brown one’ (i.e. a bear). Cc

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Germanic. See main dictionary. Cc Camilo $ From the Roman family name Camillus. Feminine form: Camila.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

18001850190019502000Gaston Paris, b. 1839Bruno Walter, b. 1876Bruno Schulz, b. 1892Bruno Kreisky, b. 1911Bruno Nicolai, b. 1926Bruno Sammartino, b. 1935Bruno Ganz, b. 1941Bruno Latour, b. 1947Bruno Alves, b. 1981Bruno Fernandes, b. 1994
  • Gaston Parisb. 1839FRnot in their usual nameFrench medievalist and writer (1839-1903)
  • Bruno Walterb. 1876DEGerman-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
  • Bruno Schulzb. 1892UAJewish novelist and painter (1892-1942)
  • Bruno Kreiskyb. 1911ATAustrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
  • Bruno Nicolaib. 1926ITItalian composer (1926-1991)
  • Bruno Sammartinob. 1935ITItalian-born American professional wrestler (1935-2018)
  • Bruno Ganzb. 1941CHSwiss actor (1941–2019)
  • Bruno Latourb. 1947FRFrench sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)
  • Bruno Alvesb. 1981PTPortuguese footballer
  • Bruno Fernandesb. 1994PTPortuguese association football player (born 1994)

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 145 sources across 73 countries.

Official registers attesting Bruno
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—668K#42
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—663K#16
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022646K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—642K#26
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024221K#1,039
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202016K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.9K#26
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20243K#41
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

Reference works 10

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

In which country does Bruno have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 646 thousand people named Bruno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bruno.
Where does the name Bruno come from?
(i) from an Italian nickname for someone with brown hair or a tanned complexion; (ii) from a surname based on the Germanic personal name Bruno. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Bruno a male or female name?
Bruno is a male 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 Bruno?
In the etymology graph, Nello is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Bruno?
In Brazil, the national register counted 645,929 people named Bruno in 2022, about 1 in 328 residents.
How common is Bruno compared with other names?
In Brazil, Bruno is the 41st most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What does the name Bruno mean?
In French, Related to brun ‘brown’; here ‘màu da sậm’.

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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, “Bruno” — the 41st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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