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BRUNO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French

Pronounced: BROO-no (German)   [key]

Means "brown" from Germanic. Saint Bruno of Cologne was a German monk of the 11th century who founded the Carthusian Order. The surname has belonged Giordano Bruno, a philosopher burned at the stake by the Inquisition.
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