Given name & surname
Branco
“white”
Branco is a surname from Portuguese. It is used in English and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Branco goes back to Portuguese Branco, meaning “white.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Branco through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,705 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Branco’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Branco
- Branco van den BoomenDutch footballerborn 1995
- Branco AmpueroChilean association football playerborn 1993
- Branco WeissSwiss businessman (1929-2010)
- Branco MelloBrazilian musicianborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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