Brunke

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Brunke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 404K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 175K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600 people, est.

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Brunke 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 Brunke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈2,600 est.≈1 in 31K—Brunke99
US United States8231 in 404K851Brunke190
PL Poland1801 in 213K93Brunke1
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 307K—Brunke47
GB United Kingdom≈110 est.≈1 in 586K—Brunke18
SE Sweden461 in 222K46Brunke11
IE Ireland≈23 est.≈1 in 222K—Brunke2
EE Estonia≈7 est.≈1 in 175Klisted—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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Brunke is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Brünke

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Hans Brunke, b. 1904Heinz Müller-Brunke, b. 1911Adalbert Brunke, b. 1912Frank Brunke, b. 1960José de la Puente Brunke, b. 1961Bernd Brunke, b. 1970Adam Brunke, b. 1986

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 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Brunke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000851#26,855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010823#28,883
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020779#31,790
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202693—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—93#31,264
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202687—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—87#33,407
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—46#13,533
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Brunke have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Brunke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunke.
How common is the name Brunke?
In the United States, the national register counted 823 people named Brunke in 2010, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.

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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, “Brunke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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