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Bruna

#5,588 in 2025Girls' name

Brown, through Bruno

Bruna has been given to 1,069 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #5,588 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Bruna, 2025

1 in 151,000

Bruna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bruna: meaning, origin, and history

Brown, through Bruno

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bruna means

Bruna belongs to the name family reached through Bruna → Bruno. Its meaning is “brown”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bruna is used in Italian, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bruno.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Bruna is pronounced /ˈbru.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,069 girls were recorded with the name Bruna between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,343 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,050 in 2020 to #5,588 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,770 in 2015 to #5,588 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bruna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,588
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bruna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bruna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bruna was born before 1957 — so the typical Bruna is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
571
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (217).

Is Bruna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+63
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,462
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,182
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.7%
Peak was 1920 (34)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,343
1915

Spellings of Bruna

Bruna is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 56.6% against Bruna's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bruna is used

Across 1910–2025, Bruna was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bruna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bruna around the world

Where Bruna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2024
    #3,016
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1909–2025
    #1,058
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1945–1977
    #637
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bruna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,588
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,462
Best rank ever
#1,343
1915
Peak year
1920
34 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,069
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Bruna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bruna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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