The BRANCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,040	967	0.012	122
United States (1880 census)	7,866	764	0.016	157
Change since 1880	+25174	-203	-0.004	-35
Other Countries
Australia	594	2727	0.004	36
United Kingdom	2,041	2910	0.004	44

Top States for BRANCH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	3,207	373	0.040	398
Texas	3,179	906	0.015	152
Virginia	2,671	331	0.038	377
Florida	2,059	1108	0.013	129
Georgia	1,774	666	0.022	217
Top States for BRANCH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	3,207	373	0.040	398
Virginia	2,671	331	0.038	377
Louisiana	1,225	584	0.027	274
Arkansas	724	526	0.027	271
Tennessee	1,533	630	0.027	269

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BRANCH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BRANCH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BRANCH in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BRANCH by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BRANCH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRANCH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BRANCH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BRANCH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	615	1.86
Mixed Race	582	1.76
Native American/Alaskan	162	0.49
Asian/Pacific	89	0.27
White (Caucasian)	16,266	49.23
Black/African American	15,327	46.39

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BRANCH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BRANCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRANCH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.