Brum — Family Name, Records and Arms

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Brum, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Brum by the numbers

Here is what public records tell us about the Brum last name. From 1891 to 2000, 132 births in France were registered under Brum. In the 2010 US Census, 1,161 Americans gave Brum as their last name (rank 22,216).

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Brum, the family's own records come first. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. Brum is catalogued in Wikidata as a Portuguese last name.

Get the complete Brum report, with a museum-style coat of arms.