Bruun Explained

Bruun is a surname of North Germanic origin. The meaning is brown (brun in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). In Denmark, the name is known to have been in use since the 13th century in the form Bruun.^[1] Other spelling variants are Bruhn and Brun. Today, c. 0.1% of the population carries Bruun as their surname or middle name. The name is also in use in Norway (c. 0.02% of the population), the Faroe Islands and the other Nordic countries (even less frequent).

In the Danish translation of Peanuts, Charlie Brown is called Søren Brun.

Abundance

As of 2007, the numbers of bearers of the surnames Bruun, Bruhn and Brun in the Nordic countries are:

	Bruun	Bruhn	Brun	source
Denmark	6382	1540	566	Statistics Denmark
Sweden	320	830	409	Statistics Sweden
Norway	1003	47	999	Statistics Norway
Finland	486	26	41	Finnish Population Register Centre

The infrequent occurrences of Bruun as a surname outside Scandinavia, mainly Germany, Great Britain, Canada and the U.S.,^[2] is due to immigration from the Nordic countries; in Germany possibly as a variation over the given name Bruno.

Notable people

Persons with Bruun as their surname

• Amalie Bruun (1985 -), Danish singer, musician, model
• Anders Bruun (born 1979), a Swedish bandy player
• Angelo Bruun (1898–1956), a Danish actor
• Anton Frederik Bruun (1901–1961), Danish oceanographer and ichthyologist
• Antti Bruun (1979 -), Finnish ice hockey player
• Bertel Bruun (1937–2011), a Danish-American ornithologist and illustrator
• Bertel Kehlet Bruun - (1964 -), a Danish-German landscape architect
• Birgitte Bruun (1934-1997), a Danish actress
• Caius Andreas Bruun (1967 -), a Finnish artist photographer
• Christian Bruun (1831–1906), a Danish historian and head of the Danish Royal Library
• Malte Conrad Bruun (1755–1826), a Danish-French geographer and journalist
• Daniel Bruun (1856–1931), a Danish military officer, archaeologist and author
• Edgar Bruun (1905–1985), a Norwegian Olympic race walker
• Else Marie Bruun (1911–2007), a Danish classical violinist
• Erik Bruun (born 1926), a Finnish designer
• Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), a Canadian-American historian
• Hans Henrik Bruun (1939-2018), a Danish-British engineer
• Hans Henrik K. Bruun (1965 -), a Danish-Swedish ecologist
• Hans Henrik R. Bruun (1946 -), a Danish sociologist and diplomat
• Helge Gösta Bruun (1897-?), a Swedish botanist
• Henrik H. Bruun, a Finnish entomologist
• Hugo Bruun (1888–1962), a Danish actor
• Kai Aage Bruun (1899–1971), a Danish composer and state radio administrator
• Kim Malthe-Bruun (1923–1945), a mythical Danish resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation
• Laurids Valdemar Bruun (1864–1935), a Danish author
• Mads Pagh Bruun (1809–1884), a Danish politician
• Magnus Bruun (1984-), a Danish actor
• Morten Bruun (1965-), a Danish football player
• Patrick M. Bruun (1920–2007), a Finnish historian
• Per Gunnar Bruun (born 1944), a Swedish musician
• Peter Daniel Bruun (1796–1864), a Danish politician
• Peter Andreas Holck Bruun (1977-), a Danish social psychologist
• Poul Bruun, a Danish music producer
• Staffan Bruun (born 1955), a Finnish author
• Thomas Christopher Bruun (1750–1834), a Danish philologist and author
• Charles Kristian Bonnycastle Bruun (1979–), a Canadian-Finnish actor

Persons with Brun as their surname

• Alice Adelaïde Brun (1904–1990) - Danish civil servant, member of the Boards of Directors of the World Bank 1962-1964
• Ane Brun (1976 -) - Norwegian singer/songwriter
• Charles Brun (1866–1919) - Danish politician
• Constantin Brun (1746–1836) - German-Danish merchant and one of the richest Danes of his day
• Eske Brun (1904–1987) - Danish governor in Greenland during World War II
• Friederike Brun (1765–1835) German-Danish author and art patron, wife of Constantin Brun
• Johan Nordahl Brun (1745–1816) - Norwegian poet and bishop
• Johanne Marie Emilie Brun (1874–1954) - Danish opera singer
• Viggo Brun (1885–1978) - Norwegian mathematician

See also

• Bruhn

Notes and References

1. Søndergaard, Georg (2000) Danske For- og Efternavne. Askholms Forlag.
2. Web site: University of Copenhagen - Name Research Section . 2007-11-04 . 2013-12-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224100321/http://www.danskernesnavne.navneforskning.ku.dk/Personnavne.asp . dead .