Brand

Brand is the 1,918th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,390 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,300.

By the numbers

People: 18,390
Rank: 1,918th
How common: 1 in 16,300
Per 100,000: 6.2

Where the name comes from

As an English, Scottish, north German, Dutch, French, and gmq surname, from a Germanic personal name derived from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“sword, firebrand, torch”), as in the second element of Hildebrand.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brand described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Brand

Elton Brand (born 1979)American basketball player
Vance D. Brand (born 1931)test pilot and NASA astronaut
Esther Brand (1922–2015)South African former athlete
Hennig Brand (1630–1710)German merchant
Jule Brand (born 2002)German footballer
Neville Brand (1920–1992)American actor
Jo Brand (born 1957)British comedian
Stewart Brand (born 1938)American writer

People named Brand with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brand

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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.