Brünner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Brunnen ‘spring, well’; plate shows vowel variation o/u and ö/ü in this surname cluster
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bɾwneɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Brünner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 12th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 587(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 800
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.2K
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)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 587 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brunner in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
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)from Brunnen ‘spring, well’; plate shows vowel variation o/u and ö/ü in this surname cluster. Bearers: 473.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brünner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #178 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Brunner | 192 |
| US United States | — | 15,593 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Brunner | 384 |
| CH Switzerland | #12 | 14,316 | 1 in 587 | 14K | Brunner | 134 |
| AT Austria | #26 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 795 | — | Brunner | 132 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 290 | — | 5 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Brunner | 59 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Brunner | 7 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Brünner 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, Zu mhd. brunne bzw. Brünn; zeigt die regionale Varianz u/ü vor Nasal. 473 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Karl Brünnerb. 1847DEGerman painter (1847–1918)
- Elsa Brünnerb. 1877DEstage actor (1877-2000)
- Richard Brünnerb. 1889ATAustrian fencer (1888–1962)
- Friedrich Brünnerb. 1910DEGerman politician (1910-2004)
- Eduard Brünnerb. 1913ATAustrian politician
- Joachim Brünnerb. 1919PLGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander
- Horst Brünnerb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929-2008)
- Brünnerb. 1950ATbadminton player
- Gisela Brünnerb. 1951DEGerman university teacher
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Brünner come from?
- from Brunnen ‘spring, well’; plate shows vowel variation o/u and ö/ü in this surname cluster. Bearers: 473. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Brünner?
- In Spanish /bɾwneɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Brünner mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Brunnen ‘spring, well’; plate shows vowel variation o/u and ö/ü in this surname cluster.
- In which country does Brünner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Brünner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunner.
- Where is Brünner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brünner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 587 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brünner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,593 people named Brünner in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Brünner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Brünner is the 178th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%BCnnerThe 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, “Brünner” — the 178th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.