Bruno

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Bruno is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.5M records spelled Bruno7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Brüno, Bruño, Brůno, Brunô

• English given name1.3M records spelled Bruno44 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Italy

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Brunoe, Brueno, Brueño, Brünö, Bruño

• Polish given name175K records spelled Bruno32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Croatia, Czechia, Italy

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

  Also written Бруно, Bruneau, Brůno, Bruño, Brûno

• a separate given name25K records spelled Bruno7 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Brun-O, Bruño, Brüno, Brúnó, Bruñó

• Danish given name17K records spelled Bruno6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Brünô

114 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●

Bruno 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.

• Name of German origin in the 18th and 19th centuries, Non- nenweiher, Mahlberg area, Baden.

  as a name·The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

• In French, Related to brun ‘brown’; here ‘màu da sậm’.

  as a name·Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

• In German, short form from brun 'brown/breastplate'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• Germanic: ‘the brown one’ (i.e. a bear). Cc

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• Germanic. See main dictionary. Cc Camilo $ From the Roman family name Camillus. Feminine form: Camila.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Gaston Parisb. 1839FRnot in their usual nameFrench medievalist and writer (1839-1903)
• Bruno Walterb. 1876DEGerman-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
• Bruno Schulzb. 1892UAJewish novelist and painter (1892-1942)
• Bruno Kreiskyb. 1911ATAustrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
• Bruno Nicolaib. 1926ITItalian composer (1926-1991)
• Bruno Sammartinob. 1935ITItalian-born American professional wrestler (1935-2018)
• Bruno Ganzb. 1941CHSwiss actor (1941–2019)
• Bruno Latourb. 1947FRFrench sociologist and philosopher (1947–2022)
• Bruno Alvesb. 1981PTPortuguese footballer
• Bruno Fernandesb. 1994PTPortuguese association football player (born 1994)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,703 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bruno?

We estimate roughly 962 thousand people bear Bruno (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Bruno have the most bearers?

We estimate about 646 thousand people bear Bruno in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bruno.

How common is Bruno compared with other names?

In Brazil, Bruno is the 32nd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Bruno a male or female name?

Bruno is a male 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 Bruno mean?

Recorded meaning: (i) from an Italian nickname for someone with brown hair or a tanned complexion; (ii) from a surname based on the Germanic personal name Bruno.