Branca

loc · Latin script

Meaning: feminine singular of branco

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Branca is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
133 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

feminine singular of branco

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Branca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Branca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—38Branca133
BR Brazil—2.6K—1
US United States—1.4K—61
AR Argentina—738——
UY Uruguay—703——
CH Switzerland—350—7

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Branca is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Brâncă

  • Croatian given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, Germany

    Languages: Croatian, English, German

    Also written Branka, Бранка, Brańka, Brañka, Braňka

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Branca is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, claw (of a cat etc.)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, paw, foot

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »škrge«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In kmb, Brigar

    as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

150016001700180019002000Giovanni Branca, b. 1571Wilhelm von Branca, b. 1844Branca de Gonta Colaço, b. 1880Branca Edmée Marques, b. 1899Vittore Branca, b. 1913Ralph Branca, b. 1926Glenn Branca, b. 1948John Branca, b. 1950Marco Branca, b. 1965Giusva Branca, b. 1967

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Branca
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.6K#5,107
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—2.5K#2,338
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2K#5,175
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20201.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20101.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20001.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19901.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19801.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19701.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960799—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1950449—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Branca mean, and where does it come from?
feminine singular of branco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Branca have the most bearers?
Branca is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled branca.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Branca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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