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    The surname Bruun

    A Danish surname, carried by 520 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bruun is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    Danish origin

    Borrowed from Danish Bruun, a variant of Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”).

    One of 50 Danish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 520 people named Bruun in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. That is up 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 477.

    #41,799
    rank among US surnames
    520
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9%
    change since 2000 (was #42,757)

    Who is named Bruun

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Bruun identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bruun

    Bruun has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Other Danish surnames

    All 50 Danish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bruun come from?
    Borrowed from Danish Bruun, a variant of Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”).
    How common is the surname Bruun?
    520 people in the United States had the surname Bruun in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. It ranked 41,799th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bruun?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bruun identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Bruun getting more or less common?
    More common. 477 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 520 in 2010, up 9.0%.