Brannan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɹænən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brannan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; WR Yorks and. alternative form of Brennan .
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; WR Yorks and. alternative form of Brennan .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Samuel Brannanb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819–1889)
- John Milton Brannanb. 1819USUnion army general (1819–1892)
- Charles F. Brannanb. 1903USAmerican politician (1903-1992)
- Robert Brannanb. 1924GBEnglish footballer (1924-1986)
- Joseph E. Brennanb. 1934USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1934-2024)
- Solomon Brannanb. 1942USAmerican football player
- Shane Brennanb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAustralian television producer and writer
- Ged Brannanb. 1972GBEnglish association football player and manager (born 1972)
- Jay Brannanb. 1982USAmerican singer-songwriter and actor
- Chalet Lizette Brannanactress
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 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.5K | #4,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.6K | #5,120 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,574 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,930 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,505 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #69,742 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,101 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Brannan mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; WR Yorks and. alternative form of Brennan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Brannan?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹænən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Brannan have the most bearers?
- Brannan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brannanThe 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, “Brannan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.