Bruno

At the 2020 census, 29,776 Americans bore the surname Bruno — 1,160th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,000.

By the numbers

People: 29,776
Rank: 1,160th
How common: 1 in 10,000
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

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.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.2%
Hispanic or Latino 18.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician
Rafael Addiego Bruno (1923–2014)Uruguayan jurist and political figure
Frank Bruno (born 1961)British boxer
Dylan Bruno (born 1972)American actor
Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825–1888)Italian priest
Massimo Bruno (born 1993)footballer
Nicette Bruno (1933–2020)Brazilian actress
Gianni Bruno (born 1991)Belgian footballer

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

Surnames like Bruno

Also a first name

Bruno has been given to 18,875 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

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.