Brandon (surname)
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- from any of several places of that name, + .
- from the Gaelic Mac Breandáin.
- transferred from the surnames; also a variant of Brendan. Popular in the U.S. in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Quotations
- 1520 The Lyfe of Saynt Brandan. Translated from Dutch.Published by Wynkyn de Worde,1483:
- Here begynneth the lyfe of Saynt Brandon. Saynt Brandon, the holy man, was a monke, and borne in Yrlonde
- ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene III:
- Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.