as a Last Name
- 2,773
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Branton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from places called Branton in South Yorkshire (formerly in West Yorkshire) and Northumberland or from Braunton in Devon. The first and last are named with Old English brōm ‘broom’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The second is from an Old English word brēmen ‘overgrown with broom’ + tūn ‘farmstead’.
| 10,002nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,773
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Branton per capita
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