Brand Family History
Brand Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Scandinavian, North German, and Dutch: from
the Germanic personal name Brando, a short form of various
compound personal names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a
derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is
Hildebrand. There is place name evidence for Brant(a) as
an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal
name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse;
Brandr is a common Old Norse personal name.English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a place where burning had
occurred, from Old English brand, or a habitational name from a
minor place named with this word, as for example The Brand in
Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.German: variant of
Brandt 1.Scandinavian: from the personal name
Brand, Brant, from Old Norse Brandr (see
1).Swedish: ornamental name from brand ‘fire’.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): ornamental name or nickname from German Brant
‘fire’, ‘conflagration’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brand
Name Distribution of Brand Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brand families
 467 - 932  156 - 466 |
 1 - 155  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brand families
|
129 - 255 44 - 128 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brand Family Origin
Brand Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Brand Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Brand Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Brand census records
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