The English surname Brandon, also found in Ireland and Scotland, is an habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in County Durham, Northumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Warwickshire. The name is derived from the Old English terms brom meaning “broom, or gorse” and dun meaning “hill.” The name is first recorded in 975 when Leofric de Brandune is recorded in “The Pipe Rolls of Norfolk and Suffolk.” The earliest record of the name in the New World occurs in 1626 when Martin Brandon arrived in Virginia. Today there are approximately 26,000 bearers of the name Brandon living in the United States.
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