Bru
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Meaning
brown, dark-haired (Catalan form of Bruno); one syllable, and a modern Catalan favorite
How popular is Bru around the world?
In the United States, 22 babies were named Bru between 2020 and 2025. In Spain, 772 residents are named Bru, ranked 1,682nd among men, with a mean age of 10.8 years.
Bru is on the official records of the United States, Spain and Brazil.
United States
1 in 990,000
In the United States, 22 babies were named Bru between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Bru has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 58,000
In Spain, 772 residents are named Bru, ranked 1,682nd among men, with a mean age of 10.8 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 36 people in Brazil were named Bru, ranked 83,466th, with a median age of 29.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Bru deep dive
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