The BRAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,750	1751	0.007	70
United States (1880 census)	4,747	1318	0.009	95
Change since 1880	+14003	-433	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	1,761	925	0.011	108
United Kingdom	5,268	1188	0.011	115

Top States for BRAND by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,730	1883	0.005	51
New York	1,434	1277	0.008	76
Florida	1,269	1625	0.008	79
Illinois	1,013	1251	0.008	82
Texas	1,001	2375	0.005	48
Top States for BRAND by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	789	962	0.018	177
Minnesota	739	636	0.015	150
Missouri	748	917	0.013	134
Mississippi	332	1298	0.012	117
Nebraska	194	958	0.011	113

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

Classification and Origin of BRAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRAND 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 BRAND 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 BRAND in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	758	4.04
Mixed Race	218	1.16
Asian/Pacific	84	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	81	0.43
White (Caucasian)	15,954	85.09
Black/African American	1,654	8.82

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

Meaning of BRAND in historical publications

In all the Teutonic dialects brand signifies to burn; also a sword, either from its brandishing, or from its glittering brightness. Brant, a hill; steep, high; Welsh, Bryn.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BRAND. O. Norse hranclr, a sword, whence the 0. Eng. brand, with the same meaning. As a personal name it occurs in the genealogy of the Northumbrian kings from Woden. It was a very common old Scandinavian name, and it is still used in Iceland. Ferguson. Brand is found in Domesd. as a previous tenant. Mr. Denham observes, that it is rather singular that the ordinarj' synonjm for a sword should be brand. The name of the weapon taken from King Bucar by the Cid was Tkona, or the fire-brand. And he adds that "many swords were flamboyant; hence the word brand." Slogans of N. of Eng. p. xvii.

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 BRAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRAND.

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.