Is There a Brünn Coat of Arms?

Brünn is best understood together with Brunner: both are German spellings of one family name. At root, the name means “Dweller by a spring”.

• In the 2010 US Census, 1,192 Americans gave Brünn as their last name (rank 21,811). That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. French birth records list 163 children named Brünn between 1891 and 2000.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Before spelling was fixed, Brunner was also written Brünn.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Brunner and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Brünn surname pack.