Last Name BRANDES

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Meaning	Name BRANDES is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origin 'БРАНДЕС'. Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic version of this name. 'BRANDES' .

Origin	Jewish, Polish, Hungarian, Belarusian

Rank	10,504 (2000 US census)	9,364 (1990 US census)

Count	2,805 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.65%, or 2655 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.25%, or 7 total occurrences, as black,
1.18%, or 33 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.43%, or 12 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.96%, or 27 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.53%, or 71 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.