Brutsch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Aus alem. Brütsch(e), Brutsche(n) ‚verzogener Mund‘; Personenname nach Mundform, auch übertragen nach mürrischem Charakter (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/bɾut͡ʃ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Brutsch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 899 people, counted by BFS in 2024.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 190Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Brutsch itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
899 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Brutsch in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bruetsch in US United States, NL Netherlands and Brütsch in DE Germany.
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.
How to pronounce Brutsch
- Spanish:/bɾut͡ʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Aus alem. Brütsch(e), Brutsche(n) ‚verzogener Mund‘; Personenname nach Mundform, auch übertragen nach mürrischem Charakter.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Brutsch is found
(measured from records)Brutsch 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 899 | 1 in 9.3K | 899 | Brutsch | 21 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 194K | listed | Brütsch | 36 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Bruetsch | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Brutsch | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Brutsch | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | Bruetsch | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Brutsch | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Brutsch | 2 |
899 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling brütsch. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dfa-band-5 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Brutsch 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 German, Übername zur Mund-/Gesichtsbeschreibung; mundbezogene Form. Bearer count: 37.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Jean-René Brutschb. 1921CHSwiss pastor (1921-1974)
- Michael Brutschb. 1963American Internet personality
- Andrea Brutschrecording supervisor
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Brutsch?
- In Spanish /bɾut͡ʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Brutsch mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aus alem. Brütsch(e), Brutsche(n) ‚verzogener Mund‘; Personenname nach Mundform, auch übertragen nach mürrischem Charakter.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brutsch?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 899 people named Brutsch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brutsch. After it come Germany, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Brutsch most common?
- Brutsch is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brutsch?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 899 people named Brutsch in 2024, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brutschThe 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, “Brutsch” — ranked 1335th in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.