Given name
Brunilda
Brunilda is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish, Italian, and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Brunilda is a form of Brunilde. Brunilde comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1939. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brunilda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,057
- 0 boys · 1,057 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 50 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,775 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brunilda’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Brunilda has a conventional equivalent in the French form Brunehilde. In Italian usage, Brunilda has a related form in BRUNILDE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brunilda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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