Brambilla  Brambilla is an Italian surname derived from Val Brembana in Italy. In the 1700s the name travelled to a small town in the state of Jalisco Mexico and was modified to Brambila to retain pronunciation in Spanish. As of 2014, 84.6% of all known bearers of the surname "Brambilla" were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,475), 8.5% of Brazil (1:49,339) and 3.6% of Argentina (1:24,509). In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,475) only in one region: Lombardy (1:246).