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branson Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of several places: Branston in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, Brandeston in Suffolk, Brandiston in Norfolk, or Braunston in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. All are named with the Old English personal name Brant + tun ‘settlement’.
  2. (of Norman origin) habitational name from a place called Briençun in northern France. Compare Brinson.
  3. patronymic from the personal name Brand (see Brand).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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branson Family Facts

Distribution of branson Families in the US in 1920
Number of branson families
 83-163
 28-82
 1-27
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Blanche Branson in Denton, TX 1917 drbrownlee 0
Irena Branson of Mariposa County, CA dsmeds2 3
Bones of the Bransons acannavo 4
Herbert BRANSON - KS Stephen 3
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New Branson Genealogy Web Site oregongal8 1
Jarred Branson Sr. D. Reynolds 23
New Branson DNA Project oregongal8 1
Robert Herman Branson Kenny Branson 2
Josephine Branson Donna App 13
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