Bruk
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bruk is a surname, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Initialism of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
- ETEthiopia1 in 1.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 552K
- SESweden1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈722 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 120K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
6.1K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Biruk in ET Ethiopia, SE Sweden, ZA South Africa and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Initialism of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #24 | 3,287 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Biruk | 34 |
| US United States | — | 603 | 3K rec. | 1 in 552K | 603 | Bruk | 89 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 154 | 152 rec. | — | — | Bruk | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 100 | 127 rec. | — | 2 | Bruk | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 85 | 235 rec. | 1 in 120K | 85 | Biruk | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 80 | 92 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 47 | 51 rec. | — | — | Biruk | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 26 | 27 rec. | — | — | Biruk | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 53 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 16 |
| PL Poland | — | 22 | — | 1 in 1.7M | 168 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 19 | 12 rec. | — | 3 | Biruk | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 18 | 22 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.8K38%
- Czech54011%
- Polish4189%
- Russian3327%
- Ukrainian3157%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,810 | 38% |
| Czech | 540 | 11% |
| Polish | 418 | 9% |
| Russian | 332 | 7% |
| Ukrainian | 315 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bruk 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, cobblestones (road pavement made of stones)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, cobblestone surface (surface, e.g. floor or stone road surface paved with stones)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, Bushes, thickets, especially of alpenroses.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, second-person singular imperative of brukti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌺
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 17 years between 2004–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Zvi Brookb. 1869UAnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1869-1922)
- Isaak Brukb. 1902RUSoviet scientist
- Solomon Brukb. 1920RUSoviet ethnographer (1920-1995)
- Franz Brukb. 1923DEGerman politician (1923-1996)
- Lyubov Brukb. 1926RUSoviet pianist
- Fridrich Brukb. 1937FIFinnish composer
- Yakov Brukb. 1939RURussian art historian
- Nadezhda Brukb. 1940FIFinnish choir director, teacher
- Toni Brukb. 1947DEGerman film producer
- David Brukb. 1968CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
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●
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 261 | #74,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 250 | #32,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #63,366 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 93 | #17,790 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 93 | #7,994 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #9,525 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,237 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #42,000 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 58 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bruk?
- We estimate roughly 722 people bear Bruk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bruk have the most bearers?
- Bruk is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled biruk.
- How common is Bruk compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Bruk is the 24th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Bruk mean?
- Recorded meaning: Initialism of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bruk” — the 24th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.