Branson

10,616 people in the United States were counted with the surname Branson in the 2020 census, making it the 3,324th most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,616
Rank: 3,324th
How common: 1 in 28,200
Per 100,000: 3.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Branson

Richard Branson (born 1950)British business magnate
Don Branson (1920–1966)racecar driver

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

Surnames like Branson

Also a first name

Branson has been given to 8,231 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2014. 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.