Branco
At the 2020 census, 2,705 Americans bore the surname Branco — 11,183rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 110,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 2,705
- Rank
- 11,183rd
- How common
- 1 in 110,000
- Per 100,000
- 0.90
Where the name comes from
Origin Portuguese
From Portuguese Branco, from branco (“white”), originally a nickname for a light-skinned man.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Branco described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Branco
- Humberto Castelo Branco (1900–1967)Brazilian military leader and politician; former President of Brazil
- Branco (born 1964)Brazilian footballer and manager
- Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890)19th-century Portuguese writer
- Juan Branco (born 1989)French-Spanish lawyer, writer and political activist
- Cristina Branco (born 1972)Portuguese singer
- Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955)Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music
- Joaquim Rafael Branco (born 1953)São Tomé and Príncipe politician
- Serge Branco (born 1980)Cameroonian footballer
People named Branco with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Branco
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.