Bruna
Bruna was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,588 among girls’ names; 1,069 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bruna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bruna mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Bruna is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Bruno”
/ˈbru.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bruna?
#5,588 among girls’ names, 2025
Bruna rose from #6,770 in 2015 to #5,588 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 13.7 per million.
34 babies in 1920, the peak
Bruna peaked in 1920, when 34 girls were given it, #1,354 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,588 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,651 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,206 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,766 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,215 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,050 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,215 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,591 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,098 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,481 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,770 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,655 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,174 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,430 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,168 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,481 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,524 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,804 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,165 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,204 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,875 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,269 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,653 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,932 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,272 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,249 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,562 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,845 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,536 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,565 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,732 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,673 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,765 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,572 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,049 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,244 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,048 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,699 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,866 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,589 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,105 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,877 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,081 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,468 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,082 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,187 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,958 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,877 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,281 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,273 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,635 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,447 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,723 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,037 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,706 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,637 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,173 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,910 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,414 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,857 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,949 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,200 | 13.4 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,513 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,602 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,564 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,722 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,512 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,681 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,894 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,204 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,445 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,493 | 24.9 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,795 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,774 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,354 | 28.4 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,808 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,972 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,781 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,742 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,343 | 28.5 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,911 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,906 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,675 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,231 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,179 | 15.1 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,890 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,662 | 22.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bruna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bruna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bruna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bruna, and how old are they?
An estimated 588 Americans named Bruna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 10 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,878 people named Bruna (2,853 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 524 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,191 babies since 1880, Bruna is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bruna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bruna and names like it
- Compare Bruna and BurnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBruna peaked in 1920.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bruna since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Bruna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Bruna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bruna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.