The Brune surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,872 people carried this name — #11,062 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 103,100 people counted. That is up 6% from 2,711 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 711 people named Brune.
20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 56 départements, most often Ille-et-Vilaine.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 50 people named Brune live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
37 people named Brune live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
30 people named Brune is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Brune in American newspapers,
1901–1902.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 42,389 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Brune,
with a public archive behind them.
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Angélique Nicole Pierre Brune d. 1829 -
Johan de Brune 1588–1658 · writer -
Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune 1763–1815 · military personnel -
Ferdinand Wilhelm Brune 1803–1857 · architect -
John Brune 1622–1645
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Frederick W. Brune 1776–1860 · entrepreneur
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Brune.
- Brum 1,161 · U.S. census
- Brumm 1,443 · U.S. census
- Brun 2,770 · U.S. census
- Bruna 475 · U.S. census
- Brunache 323 · U.S. census
- Brunck 194 · U.S. census
- Bruneau 1,728 · U.S. census
- Bruneel 114 · U.S. census
- Brunel 177 · U.S. census
- Brunelle 4,688 · U.S. census
- Brunelli 473 · U.S. census
- Brunello 177 · U.S. census
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