Brunilde
Meaning
armored battle-maiden (Portuguese form of the German Brunhilde, the Nibelungenlied heroine)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Brunilde does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
118 people · the #36,689 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 66
Among people named Brunilde living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Brunilde deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Brunilde truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Brunilde fits with your family’s names and surname.
Keep exploring
Does Brunilde fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Brunilde to your family’s tree →