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The BRANTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,750 10674 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 410 11266 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +2340 +592 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 57 22726 0 3
United Kingdom 714 6816 0.002 16
Top States for BRANTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 304 2094 0.008 76
Florida 289 6804 0.002 18
Texas 234 7928 0.001 11
Louisiana 228 2586 0.005 51
North Carolina 218 4225 0.003 27
Top States for BRANTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 304 2094 0.008 76
Louisiana 228 2586 0.005 51
Alabama 159 3596 0.004 36
North Carolina 218 4225 0.003 27
Mississippi 73 4029 0.003 26

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BRANTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BRANTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BRANTON in South Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BRANTON by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BRANTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BRANTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BRANTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BRANTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 328 11.93
Mixed Race 42 1.53
Asian/Pacific 21 0.76
White (Hispanic) 21 0.76
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.58
White (Caucasian) 2,322 84.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BRANTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BRANTON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BRANTON.

Similar names to BRANTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRANTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BRANTON

The following words are slight variants of BRANTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.