Brannen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Brannen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb;. from Mac Branáin, see Brannan .
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 69Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb;. from Mac Branáin, see Brannan .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Brannen is found
(measured from records)Brannen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #239 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Brannen | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,101 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Brannen | 312 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Brannen | 84 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Brannen | 78 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 1 | Brannen | 29 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Brannen | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Brannen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, first/third-person plural preterite of brinnen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of brann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, plural of brân
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jack Brannenb. 1874CACanadian ice hockey player (1874-1964)
- Paul Brannenb. 1962GBmember of the European Parliament (born 1962)
- Nathan Brannenb. 1982CAathletics competitor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brannen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Durham and Northumb;. from Mac Branáin, see Brannan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Brannen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Brannen in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brannen. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Brannen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,101 people named Brannen in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Brannen compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Brannen is the 239th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brannenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brannen” — the 239th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.