Brünn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Brno (capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and second-largest city in the Czech Republic)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Brünn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 279K
- ATAustria≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Brunn in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Brno (capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and second-largest city in the Czech Republic)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brünn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Brunn | 97 |
| US United States | 1,192 | 1 in 279K | 1.3K | Brunn | 213 |
| GH Ghana | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Brunn | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Brunn | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Brunn | 61 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Brunn | 17 |
| SE Sweden | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Brunn | 20 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Brunn | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Brünn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Vokalvariante zu Brunn aus mhd. brunne/brunne ‘Brunnen, Quelle’; endungsloses Simplizium. 169 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Hungarian, Brno (the capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and the second-largest city in the Czech Republic)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emma Brünnb. 1851DEholocaust victim, b. 1851-02-15
- Rosa Brünnb. 1859CZholocaust victim, b. 1859-02-20
- Aron Brünnb. 1861CZHolocaust victim (born 1861)
- Johanna Brünnb. 1861Holocaust victim (born 1861)
- Henriette Lewinb. 1866not in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1866-05-15
- Regina Burgb. 1871DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1871)
- Jehoshua Julius Brünnb. 1913ILZionist, emigrant and autobiographer
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
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brünn mean, and where does it come from?
- Brno (capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and second-largest city in the Czech Republic) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Brünn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Brünn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brunn.
- How common is the name Brünn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,192 people named Brünn in 2010, about 1 in 279 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C3%BCnnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Brünn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.