Bruhn
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bruhn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 59K
- USUnited States1 in 118K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bruhn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Bruhn | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bruhn | 134 |
| US United States | — | 2,828 | 1 in 118K | 3K | Bruhn | 280 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,569 | 1 in 3.7K | 1.6K | — | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Bruhn | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 888 | 1 in 11K | 888 | Bruhn | 43 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Bruhn | 94 |
| NO Norway | — | 86 | 1 in 64K | 86 | — | 7 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #967 | — | — | — | Bruhn | 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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bruhn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gmw-ecg, a diminutive of the male given name Bruno
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)
- Maria Christina Bruhnb. 1732SESwedish chemist and inventor
- William Bruhn-Möllerb. 1887SESwedish rower (1887-1964)
- Axel Bruhnb. 1904DEGerman politician (1904-1983)
- Erik Bruhnb. 1928DKDanish ballet dancer (1928-1986)
- Christian Bruhnb. 1934DEGerman composer, record producer
- Manfred Bruhnb. 1949DEGerman economist
- Matthias Bruhnb. 1966DEGerman art historian
- Ina Bruhnb. 1971DKDanish screenwriter
- Annika Bruhnb. 1992DEGerman swimmer
- Emily BruhnCACanadian actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #10,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,385 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.6K | #251 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 888 | #1,104 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 86 | #17,587 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Bruhn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bruhn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Bruhn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bruhn.
- Where is Bruhn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bruhn is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bruhn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,828 people named Bruhn in 2010, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Bruhn compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Bruhn is the 967th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bruhn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bruhnThe 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, “Bruhn” — the 967th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.