With two possible meanings, Bruno is a name of Old German origin. It can be derived from ‘brun’ meaning ‘brown’ or from ‘brunna’ meaning ‘armour, protection’. It is well known in many countries including France, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Bruno is a male first name.
The name Bruno isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Bruno ranks 638. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Bruno. In the entire USA, approximately 13,948 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bruno. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
With two possible meanings, Bruno is a name of Old German origin. It can be derived from ‘brun’ meaning ‘brown’ or from ‘brunna’ meaning ‘armour, protection’. It is well known in many countries including France, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.
In Brazil, Bruno is... also used as a girl's name, although very rarely.
You may not know anyone named Bruno, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to men and boys named Bruno. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Bruno living in one state or another. If your name is Bruno and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Illinois, which has the most people named Bruno relative to the population, you still have to ask 4,081 men and boys their names before you hear Bruno as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Bruno is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bruno and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bruno, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Unicorn
Nut
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bruno
Bruno
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
R
U
N
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
R
U
N
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bruno sounds like this:
