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    The surname Bran

    A surname, carried by 1,687 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

    Bran: #16,887 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bran #16,887, 1,687 people Bran: #16,887 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bran #16,887, 1,687 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bran is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    English surname, variant of Brann.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,687 people named Bran in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,015 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,466.

    #16,887
    rank among US surnames
    1,687
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.1%
    change since 2000 (was #17,652)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,881Locher1,688182,906
    #16,887Howery1,687183,015
    #16,894Schild1,686183,123

    Who is named Bran

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Bran identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 14% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 82%
    • White (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bran

    Bran has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bran come from?
    English surname, variant of Brann.
    How common is the surname Bran?
    1,687 people in the United States had the surname Bran in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,015 Americans. It ranked 16,887th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bran?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Bran identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 14% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Bran getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,466 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,687 in 2010, up 15%.