Save Type Surname (from nickname) Usage Italian, Portuguese Pronounced Pron. /ˈbru.no/(Italian) /ˈbɾu.nu/(Portuguese) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "brown" in Italian and Portuguese, a nickname for a person with brown hair or brown clothes. A famous bearer was the cosmologist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600). Related NamesDetails RootbrunusVariantBrunetti(Italian) Other Languages & CulturesBrun(Danish) Bruin, De Bruijn, De Bruin(Dutch) Bronson, Brown, Browne, Burnett(English) Brun, Brunet, Lebrun(French) Braun, Braune, Bruhn, Brune(German) Brun(Norwegian) Brun(Swedish) User SubmissionBruno Categories boxers, brown, colors, hair, sports pundits