In 2025, 351 US boys were named Bruno, making it the 740th most common boys’ name of the year, down 36 places from #704 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 381 boys named Bruno in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #259, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 448, in 2022. For comparison, it was #712 in 2015 and #806 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bruno in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 18,875 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,464 babies named Bruno.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,824 US boys were named Bruno; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 448. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,866 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bruno ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #414 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.