Braun

Braun is the 1,018th most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,654 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,882.

By the numbers

People: 33,654
Rank: 1,018th
How common: 1 in 8,882
Per 100,000: 11.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Braun.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Braun

Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)German physicist
Eva Braun (1912–1945)photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler
Carol Moseley Braun (born 1947)American politician and lawyer
Otto Braun (1872–1955)German politician
Nicholas Braun (born 1988)American actor
Alexander Braun (1805–1877)German botanist and university teacher
Scooter Braun (born 1981)American talent manager and businessman

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

Surnames like Braun

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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.