Brandon

At the 2020 census, 23,986 Americans bore the surname Brandon — 1,448th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,500.

By the numbers

People: 23,986
Rank: 1,448th
How common: 1 in 12,500
Per 100,000: 8.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm + dūn.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.1%
Black, not Hispanic 29.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Brandon

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1484–1545)English nobleman, diplomat and military commander
Michael Brandon (born 1945)American actor
Henry Brandon (1912–1990)German-American character actor
Terrell Brandon (born 1970)American basketball player
Eric Brandon (1920–1982)racecar driver
William W. Brandon (1868–1934)American politician
Michael Brandon (born 1965)American pornographic film director & actor

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

Surnames like Brandon

Also a first name

Brandon has been given to 774,654 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.