Bruun

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[]

Anders Bruun (born 1979), a Swedish bandy player
(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
- (1964 -), a Danish-German landscape architect
Birgitte Bruun (1953 -), a Danish actress
(1967 -), a Finnish artist photographer
(1831–1906), a Danish historian and head of the Danish Royal Library
Malte Conrad Bruun (1755–1826), a Danish-French geographer and journalist
(1856–1931), a Danish military officer, archaeologist and author
Edgar Bruun (1905–1985), a Norwegian Olympic race walker
(1911–2007), a Danish classical violinist
Erik Bruun (born 1926), a Finnish designer
Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), a Canadian-American historian
(1939-2018), a Danish-British engineer
(1965 -), a Danish-Swedish ecologist
Hans Henrik R. Bruun (1946 -), a Danish sociologist and diplomat
(1897-?), a Swedish botanist
, a Finnish entomologist
(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
(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
(1920–2007), a Finnish historian
(born 1944), a Swedish musician
Peter Daniel Bruun (1796–1864), a Danish politician
(1977-), a Danish social psychologist
, a Danish music producer
(born 1955), a Finnish author
(1750–1834), a Danish philologist and author
Charles Kristian Bonnycastle Bruun (1979–), a Canadian-Finnish actor

Persons with Brun as their surname[]

(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
(1874–1954) - Danish opera singer
Viggo Brun (1885–1978) - Norwegian mathematician

References[]

^ Søndergaard, Georg (2000) Danske For- og Efternavne. Askholms Forlag. ISBN 87-90721-17-9
^ University of Copenhagen - Name Research Section

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[1] Søndergaard, Georg (2000) Danske For- og Efternavne. Askholms Forlag. ISBN 87-90721-17-9

[2] University of Copenhagen - Name Research Section

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