Brannagan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹænəɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brannagan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Durham; Glasgow. from Ó Branagáin, see Brannigan .
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 264K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 402K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 264K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Durham; Glasgow. from Ó Branagáin, see Brannigan .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brannagan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Brannagan | 71 |
| US United States | 133 | 1 in 2.5M | 143 | Brannagan | 103 |
| ES Spain | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 769K | — | Brannagan | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Brannagan | 25 |
| BR Brazil | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Brannagan | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Brannagan | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Brannagan | 14 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Danny Brannaganb. 1986CACanadian football player
- Cameron Brannaganb. 1996GBEnglish association football player
- Mary BrannaganIEIrish chess player
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brannagan mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Durham; Glasgow. from Ó Branagáin, see Brannigan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Brannagan?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹænəɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brannagan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 people named Brannagan in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brannagan.
- How common is the name Brannagan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 133 people named Brannagan in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brannaganThe 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, “Brannagan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.