Brandon Family History
Brandon Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Brandon, in County Durham, Northumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English
brom ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + dun ‘hill’. One in
Lincolnshire, however, may be named with the Brant river, on which it
stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant
‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks.Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin
‘son of Breandán’.French: from the Old French
oblique case of the personal name Brand, of Germanic origin
(see Brand 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brandon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brandon families
 101 - 200  34 - 100 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brandon families
|
297 - 591 100 - 296 |
1 - 99 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brandon families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brandon Family Origin
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Brandon Family Occupations
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