Bruno

Where Bruno comes from

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bruno
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1915
    Peak, #259
    348 babies named Bruno — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #466.
  4. 1981
    Bruno Alves born
    Portuguese footballer
  5. 1994
    Bruno Fernandes born
    Portuguese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Bruno Fernandes · Portuguese association football player, born 1994
  • Bruno Alves · Portuguese footballer, born 1981
  • Bruno Ganz · Swiss actor, 1941–2019
  • Bruno Schulz · Jewish novelist and painter, 1892–1942
  • Bruno Kreisky · Austrian diplomat and chancellor, 1911–1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.