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    The surname Brannen

    A surname, carried by 4,101 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B655

    Brannen: #8,084 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Brannen #8,084, 4,101 people Brannen: #8,084 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Brannen #8,084, 4,101 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Brannen is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,101 people named Brannen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,285 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,950.

    #8,084
    rank among US surnames
    4,101
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #7,755)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,076Lovely4,10475,230
    #8,080Carraway4,10375,249
    #8,082Villavicencio4,10275,267
    #8,084Trail4,10175,285
    #8,087Debord4,10075,304
    #8,089Medford4,09975,322
    #8,091Holstein4,09875,341

    Who is named Brannen

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

    91% of people named Brannen identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Brannen

    Brannen has the Soundex code B655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B655.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Brannen?
    4,101 people in the United States had the surname Brannen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,285 Americans. It ranked 8,084th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Brannen?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Brannen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Brannen getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,950 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,101 in 2010, up 3.8%.