What Does The Name Bruno Mean?

The word 'Bruno' is used to name a boy and it can trace its origin in the old German where the word was being used to describe the colour brown. The word has a royal association and most of the times it was used by the ruling families during the middle ages.

There are some other famous bearers of this name and in the tenth century it was attributed to the saint Bruno who was the founding person of the Carthusian order of monks. In the English context the name became famous when Lewis Carroll used it in his work 'Sylvie and Bruno' and later several people bore the name as theirs. You can find Bruno Walter, the orchestral conductor and also the actor Bruno Kirby.