Bruna

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bruna is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: feminine singular of bruno.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 454◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 870
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈478K ●

across 11 countries

#359 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
237 ●

280K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 454 ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

feminine singular of bruno

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bruna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#70466,413△215K rec.1 in 454466KBruna229
AR Argentina—20,12821K rec.—1.9KBruna57
PT Portugal#1239,6533.5K rec.—listedBruna118
CL Chile#6938,6611.8K rec.—40Bruna76
IT Italy#6858,4308.4K rec.—15Bruna129
ES Spain—4,5553.8K rec.1 in 11K4.6KBruna84
UY Uruguay#2604,3952.1K rec.——Bruna23
MX Mexico—4,1643.6K rec.—6Bruna69
VE Venezuela—3,2331.6K rec.——Bruna13
PE Peru—3,0014.3K rec.——Bruna31
US United States—2,8538.7K rec.1 in 117K2.9KBruna237
FR France—1,7600 rec.1 in 39K1.8K—2

Roughly 466K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 454). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese6.6M92%
  • English482K7%
  • Spanish57K1%
  • French13K1%
  • Croatian11K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese6,621,45892%
English481,7157%
Spanish57,4891%
French13,4461%
Croatian10,8761%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bruna is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name499K records spelled Bruna25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Brüna, Bruña, Bruena, Brünä, Brůna

  • Croatian given name13K records spelled Bruna14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Slovenian

    Also written Бруна, Bruña, Bruňa, Brùnà

  • Catalan given name5.8K records spelled Bruna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Bruña

  • a separate given name4.4K records spelled Bruna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Bruña, Brüna, Brūna, Brunå, Brůna

  • Czech surname3.6K records spelled Bruna5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Italy

    Also written Brůna, Brúna, Brunã, Brüna

  • Italian given name3.1K records spelled Bruna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Bruña, Brunà, Brûnà, Brunã, Brűnà

  • Albanian given name1.1K records spelled Bruna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

    Also written Bruña

48 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.

Other recorded senses●

Bruna 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 Italian, forma feminina de Bruno

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Teutonic; brown-haired or dark-haired.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Italian, Variante di Bruni

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Scura, bruna

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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●

02040601940196019802000

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Bruna in datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015), Argentina, 1922–2015
Yearrecords
19224
19236
19248
192510
19269
192710
19287
19293
193012
19318
19322
193315
19346
193513
19364
193714
19389
19399
194016
19419
194214
194314
194418
194517
19465
194719
194813
194910
19506
195116
19528
195311
19545
19559
195611
19577
19589
19596
19604
19618
19628
19636
19645
19652
19664
19671
19683
19692
19704
19711
19721
19733
19752
19763
19771
19784
19792
19811
19825
19834
19845
19856
198615
198714
198819
198916
199021
199118
199211
199329
199418
199523
199617
199717
19985
19992
20007
200112
200213
20036
200410
20056
200611
20079
200811
200912
201032
201120
201230
201339
201458
201560

AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 92 years between 1922–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Bruna Papandrea, b. 1971Bruna Benites, b. 1985Bruna Cusí, b. 1986Bruna Abdullah, b. 1986Bruna Tenório, b. 1989Bruna Linzmeyer, b. 1992Bruna Marquezine, b. 1995Bruna de Paula, b. 1996Bruna Takahashi, b. 2000Bruna Vilamala Costa, b. 2002

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 81 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Bruna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022466K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—464K#51
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—464K#84
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022)—461K#14
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20208.3K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.6K#938
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.7K#561
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#5,782
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.7K#51
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20212.1K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.9K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.8K#1,152

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 710 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bruna?
We estimate roughly 478 thousand people bear Bruna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Bruna have the most bearers?
We estimate about 466 thousand people bear Bruna in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bruna.
Where is Bruna most common?
Bruna is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 454 people carrying it.
How common is Bruna compared with other names?
In Brazil, Bruna is the 70th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Bruna a male or female name?
Bruna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Bruna mean?
Recorded meaning: feminine singular of bruno
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bruna” — the 70th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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