Brown

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ORIGIN AND HISTORY

The name Brown is most popular as a surname although it also exists as a baby name for boys. As a surname, the name stems from calling a person by the color of their hair or skin or perhaps even the color of their clothing. Variants of the name Brown exist as a surname in a large number of languages, but in English-speaking places the last name Brown is extremely common.

For example, the London telephone guide is said to list more than 5000 listings for the name Brown, and the telephone book of New York City lists half that number. Those high numbers just in two large cities give a good impression of how common the last name Brown is.^[1]

Brown came to be an English surname both from German and French. Brown is said to stem from the French term 'le brun' (the brown one).

POPULARITY

The surname Brown is extremely common in English speaking places. In England and Wales it was judged to be the third most common surname in a survey of residents. ^[1]

In the U.S., the last name Brown is the fifth most common surname according to the 1990 census. ^[1]

As a baby given name, Brown doesn't make it onto any lists of popular names, so it remains a unique baby name.

FACTS

The last name Brown exists in a lot of different languages

• Scandinavian languages: Bruhn, Brunn, Bruun
• German: Braun Low German: Bruhn, Brun
• Dutch: Bruin, Bruine, Bruyn, Bruyne, De Bruin, De Bruine, De Bruijn, De Bruijne
• Flemish: Bruinen, Bruineman, De Bruyn, De Bruyne; Bryn.
• Italian: Bruni, Bruno
• Catalan: Bru, Brun, Bruna (feminine)
• French: Lebrun
• Ashkenazic: Braun, Brauner, Broinlich (from Yiddish for 'brownish')
• Portuguese: Bruno

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NAMESAKES

• Emmett 'Doc' Brown was the scientist in the 'Back to the Future' movies who turned a DeLorean into a time machine.
• The Browns were a hobbit family in the famous books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Charlie Brown is the famous cartoon character by Charles Schultz

FAMOUS PERSONS

• Dan Brown (author of famous books like The Da Vinci Code.
• Bobby Brown was a famous American blues singer.
• James Brown was a wildly popular American musician.
• John Brown was a slave in the 1800s who started a new life after escaping slavery and wrote a book Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown.

NOTES

OTHER BROWN'S

Brown Aaron, Brown Abby, Brown Abdi, Brown Abi, Brown Abraham, Brown Abrams, Brown Adaline, Brown Adam, Brown Adams, Brown Addie, Brown Adkins, Brown Adrienne, Brown Agnew, Brown Ahaghotu, Brown Ahenkora, Brown Aidy, Brown Aimee, Brown Aisha, Brown Aj, Brown Aja, Brown Ajibola, Brown Akers, Brown Akilah, Brown Akin, Brown Al, Brown Alan, Brown Albert, Brown Alberto, Brown Ale, Brown Alex, Brown Alexander, Brown Alexandra, Brown Alexia, Brown Alfreda, Brown Ali, Brown Alice, Brown Alicia, Brown Allan, Brown Allen, Brown Allison, Brown Allister, Brown Alonzo, Brown Alsip, Brown Altman, Brown Alvarez, Brown Alvin, Brown Alysha, Brown Amanda, Brown Amazon, Brown Amber, More results

Author: Rachel Hanson