Brändle Family Crest & Name History

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Brändle is usually a form of Brand. At root, the name means “Sword”.

• Brändle carries the diminutive ending -le, so it began as a ‘little’ or affectionate form of Brand.
• The 2010 US Census counted 628 people named Brändle, ranking it number 35,764 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.
• Related forms: Brands, Brandts and Brandis.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Heraldry and the Brändle name

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