Last Name BRAN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Poor; black; a raven, a mountain-stream. Welsh, 'bran,' a crow; the name of dark rivers.

Origin	Gaelic, Jewish, Irish, Romanian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	17,652 (2000 US census)	25,770 (1990 US census)

Count	1,466 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

18.83%, or 276 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.14%, or 46 total occurrences, as black,
1.3%, or 19 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.34%, or 5 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.3%, or 19 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
75.1%, or 1101 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...