as a Last Name
- 10,249
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Branson
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from any of several places: Branston in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, Brandeston in Suffolk, Brandiston in Norfolk, or Braunston in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. All are named with the Old English personal name Brant + tūn ‘settlement’. 2. (of Norman origin) habitational name from a place called Briençun in northern France. Compare Brinson. 3. patronymic from the personal name Brand (see Brand).
| 3,030th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,249
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Missouri
- has the most people named Branson per capita
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