Given name & surname
Branton
“from the broom or gorse town”
Branton is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the broom or gorse town.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the broom or gorse town.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Middle English Branton, from Middle English Brampdon, from Old English brōmdūn, built from English broom + down (“hill”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Branton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 921
- 921 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −56%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 766 as a first name in 2020; 2,523 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.
Branton’s family of names
In English usage, Branton shares an earlier linguistic root with Brandon. Branton has a related form in Branstan. Branton has a related form in Bransten.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Branstonvariant
- Brantenvariant
- Branstinvariant
- Branstenvariant
- Branstunvariant
- Brantanvariant
- Brantynvariant
- Brantinvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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