Brūn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brūn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Jersey; also Guernsey. see Leadbetter .
- UYUruguay1 in 650(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.7K
- NONorway1 in 2.7K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 650 (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Brun in FR France, US United States, CH Switzerland and 2 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)Main GB Location (1881): Jersey; also Guernsey. see Leadbetter . Leche Le Blond Lechmere • Current frequencies: GB 109, Ireland 1 • GB frequency 1881: 77 • Main GB location 1881: Jersey; also London French, Huguenot: variant of Blunt , with French definite article le.
Cited for this meaning 7
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Brūn is found
(measured from records)Brūn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #61 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3.6K | Brun | 327 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 5,212 | 1 in 650 | 5.2K | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | #953 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Brun | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 333 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,770 | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Brun | 208 |
| CH Switzerland | #800 | 2,624 | 1 in 3.2K | 2.6K | Brun | 59 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,020 | 1 in 2.7K | 2K | Brun | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 626 | 1 in 9.4K | 626 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brūn mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Jersey; also Guernsey. see Leadbetter . Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Brūn a male or female name?
- Brūn 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brūn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Brūn in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brun. After it come Uruguay, Algeria, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Brūn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brūn is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 650 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Brūn?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 5,212 people named Brūn, about 1 in 650 residents.
- How common is Brūn compared with other names?
- In France, Brūn is the 61st most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/br%C5%ABnThe 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, “Brūn” — the 61st most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.