Given name & surname
Brutus
“a dull-witted man”
Brutus is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a dull-witted man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a dull-witted man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brutus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 47
- 47 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 6 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 boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 152 as a first name in 2020; 2,036 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brutus’s family of names
In Polish usage, Brutus has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Bruto. Brutus has a related form in Bruto.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Brutus
- Brutus HamiltonAthletics track and field athlete and coach, college athletics administrator (1900-1970)
- Brutus de VilleroiFrench submarine pioneer1794–1874
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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