Braun (family name)

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Braun is a family name .

origin

The family name brown is derived from the color brown . Like the name black , the family name originally mostly referred to the hair color, but also to the color of the eyes or skin.

variants

The most common variants are Braune , Brauner , Brauns , Bruhn , Brune , Bruns and Bruno , whereby the last ones can also be derived from the first name Bruno (see also Brunonen ; e.g. Brunshausen Monastery near Bad Gandersheim).

frequency

The name Braun ranks 21st among the most common family names .

International

The English name Brown is synonymous. Occasionally, German immigrants to the United States changed their name from Braun to Brown.

Noble family

Braun is the name of an old Silesian noble family, see Braun (Silesian noble family) , as well as a Saxon noble family, see Braun (Saxon noble family) .

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  • Zev Braun (1928–2019), American film producer