Brutal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brutal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 19M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
2 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brutal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Brutal | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Brutal | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Brutal | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Brutal | 3 |
2 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Brutal 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 Polish, brute (brutal person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, brutal, brutish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, brutal; wicked
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, brutal; cruel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, BRUTÁL, -Ă, brutali, -e, adj. (Despre oameni și manifestările lor) Lipsit de delicatețe, aspru, dur, violent; grosolan, necioplit. ♦ Care este direct, fără menajamente. O sinceritate brutală.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #313,567 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Brutal mean, and where does it come from?
- Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Brutal?
- In the etymology graph, Bruto, Brute and Brutality are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Brutal have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2 people named Brutal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Brutal most common?
- Brutal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brutal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Brutal in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brutalThe 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, “Brutal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.