German: from a pet form of the personal name Brand
1.
Altered spelling of South German Brändle (see
Brandle).
Swedish: from the Germanic personal name
Brand (see Brand 1) + -ell, a common suffix of
Swedish surnames, taken from the Latin adjectival ending
-elius.
Swedish: habitational name for someone from a
place named with brand ‘fire’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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