Bruker

surname · Latin script

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

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

Bruker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 926K
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 2M

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.

United States (measured from records)

130 people, 2010

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 926K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bruker 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 Bruker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1301 in 2.6M133Bruker115
IN India—≈26 est.≈1 in 51M—Bruker1
MA Morocco—≈18 est.≈1 in 2M—Bruker1
CA Canada—≈15 est.≈1 in 2.5M—Bruker4
GB United Kingdom—≈14 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Bruker4
IL Israel—≈9 est.≈1 in 926K—Bruker7
CH Switzerland—41 in 2.1M4—1
NR Nauru#527———Bruker1

130 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)

Bruker is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Брукер, Brooker

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Brüker

27 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)

Bruker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, user, utiliser / utilizer

    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)

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)

FormalDear Bruker,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Bruker
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010130#130,610
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020124#139,059
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Bruker?
A machine transcription gives /bɹukɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bruker have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 130 people named Bruker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bruker.
How common is the name Bruker?
In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Bruker in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
How common is Bruker compared with other names?
In Nauru, Bruker is the 527th most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bruker” — the 527th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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