Bruno

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

German name

1) Short and also Latinised form of Old High German names containing the name element BRUN [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

2) Short form of Old High German names containing the name element BRYN [1] [4] [7]

See also -o

Related Names

Brun
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Brune
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Bruno
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Brúno
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Icelandic
Brúnó
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Icelandic
Bruuno
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Pruuno
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Pryyno
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Runo
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Ruuno
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Ryyno
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For female forms see Bruna

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Brunosson Iceland

Female

Brunosdóttir Iceland

Cognates

Combinations

For combinations see BRUN and BRYN (name elements)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bruno
Genitive: Brunos
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Bruno
Genitive: Brunon
Partitive: Brunoa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bruno
Accusative: Bruno
Dative: Bruno
Genitive: Brunos
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bruno
Genitive: Brunos
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Bruno
Genitive: Brunos

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

17 May

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

17 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

6 October

Sweden Sweden

17 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860–1939), Swedish artist (wildlife painter)
  • Bruno Poromaa (10 May 1936 – 11 September 2016), Swedish politician


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Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
1866 4630 0 5 1866 4625
Denmark Denmark[12]
1924
n.a.
0
n.a.
1924
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
3043 0 0
n.a.
3043
Iceland Iceland[14]
26 38
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
26 32
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
313
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
313
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Bruno (m) Sources: [11][12][16][13]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Dr. Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches namenbuch (1856)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no