Brunilda

Girls' name

Breastplate + battle, fight, through Brunilde

Brunilda has been given to 1,057 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Brunilda, 1983

1 in 433,000

Brunilda over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brunilda: meaning, origin, and history

Breastplate + battle, fight, through Brunilde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brunilda means

Brunilda belongs to the name family reached through Brunilda → Brunilde → Brunhilde. Its meaning is “breastplate + battle, fight”.

Origin, language, and formation

Brunilda is used in Albanian, Italian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brunilde and Brunhilde.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Brunilda is pronounced /bruˈnil.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,057 girls were recorded with the name Brunilda between 1939 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,481 in 1954.

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.

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How common is Brunilda?

Brunilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983: 1 in 433,000; 8 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only: 1 in 209,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 300,048 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Brunilda 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 1983 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 300,048 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brunilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brunildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brunilda was born before 1961 — so the typical Brunilda is around 64 today.

Median birth year: 1961; About 64 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 62.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 975; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (402).

Is Brunilda 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1959 (50)
Years since peak: 66; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,481; 1954

Where Brunilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Brunilda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 56,578 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 20,000
2New Jersey1 in 100,000
3Illinois1 in —
4Ohio1 in —
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. Brunilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Brunilda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,481; 1954
Peak year: 1959; 50 that year
First recorded: 1939
Last recorded: 1983
All-time count: 1,057
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Brunilda

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

Bruchy Brucha Brunhilda Bruna Brunetta Esmerelda Ezmeralda Gricelda Criselda Grizelda Mathilda Clotilda Brunette Griselda Mafalda Reynalda Bruce Donalda Brunella Donelda Tilda Ethelda Emelda Ezmerelda

Sibling names for Brunilda

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

For a sister

Meg Andra Tamela Robbin Jannette Joellen Gerri Debby

For a brother

Curtiss Russ Nicky Dwain Stan Lindsay Cliff Von

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