Bruning

At the 2020 census, 2,670 Americans bore the surname Bruning — 11,306th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,670
Rank: 11,306th
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Where the name comes from

North/Low German and Dutch surname, from the old Germanic name *Bruno, related to modern Brun, and ultimately from the adjective bruin (“brown”). Compare Bruening.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bruning described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bruning

Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970)German chancellor

People named Bruning with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bruning

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.