Brandenburg Surname

25,233rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 21,384 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Brandenburg Surname Definition:

(German) One who came from Brandenburg, a district in northern Germany.

Brandenburg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States12,9681:27,9503,489
Germany4,6611:17,2722,273
Netherlands1,4651:11,5271,617
Brazil8011:267,25910,292
Australia5211:51,8156,406
France1381:481,32467,982
Poland1361:279,47634,080
Canada1301:283,42826,469
Denmark1301:43,4214,523
Switzerland641:128,32712,782
Argentina621:689,41047,472
England421:1,326,62059,571
Romania361:557,71941,269
Russia261:5,543,194237,148
Belgium201:574,83253,219
Finland181:305,37222,464
Thailand161:4,414,897343,519
Sweden151:656,45048,545
South Africa141:3,869,836127,494
Hungary131:755,09840,181
Ecuador101:1,590,58518,674
Spain91:5,194,67182,436
Paraguay81:904,5939,127
Slovakia61:889,40878,715
New Zealand61:754,72041,661
Austria61:1,419,23986,529
Israel51:1,711,52784,568
Panama51:782,45211,059
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
Philippines41:25,309,556279,062
Morocco41:8,619,02573,251
Chile31:5,872,15852,204
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Mexico31:41,375,40271,397
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Moldova21:1,780,68455,103
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Peru21:15,892,06251,966
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Suriname11:552,6169,664
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Belarus11:9,501,059159,228
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Guam11:160,1214,893
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Estonia11:1,321,80440,178
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England91:2,708,37473,770
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,2351:40,6634,773

Brandenburg (15) may also be a first name.

Brandenburg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(German) One who came from Brandenburg, a district in northern Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Brandenburg Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Brandenburg Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Brandenburg (Georgian: ბრანდენბურგ, Russian: Бранденбург) occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Brandenburg? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 25,233rd most prevalent surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 340,794 people. The last name Brandenburg occurs mostly in The Americas, where 62 percent of Brandenburg are found; 58 percent are found in North America and 58 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Brandenburg is also the 2,900,335th most commonly used forename on earth. It is borne by 15 people.

The surname is most frequently used in The United States, where it is held by 12,968 people, or 1 in 27,950. In The United States it is most prevalent in: Ohio, where 9 percent are found, Kentucky, where 9 percent are found and Texas, where 6 percent are found. Aside from The United States this last name exists in 59 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 22 percent are found and The Netherlands, where 7 percent are found.

Brandenburg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Brandenburg has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Brandenburg surname grew 1,050 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 467 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Brandenburg Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Brandenburg last name are 22.88% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 69.65% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Brandenburg earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 40.1% more than the national average, earning R 332,940 per year; in United States they earn 1.14% less than the national average, earning $42,657 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.93% more than the national average, earning $55,114 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Brandenburg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Brandenburg in the Georgian language
ბრანდენბურგbrandenburg-
Brandenburg in the Russian language
Бранденбургbrandenburg-

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Brandenburg Reference & Research

Brandenburg FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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Footnotes

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