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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

'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.

Meaning of BRANCH in historical publications

BRANCH. A hundred in co. Wilts. Branche, Braunche, H. R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BRANCH

The following words are slight variants of BRANCH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.