Prante Name Meaning and History
German: variant of Brand. This name was brought to Bergen, Norway, from Bielefeld in Westphalia around the beginning of the 19th century, and from there to the U.S.
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Brand Name Meaning and History
English, Scottish, Scandinavian, North German, and Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Brando, a short form of various compound personal names containing the element brand ‘sword’ (a derivative of brinnan ‘to flash’), of which the best known is Hildebrand. There is place name evidence for Brant(a) as an Old English personal name; however, the Middle English personal name Brand was probably introduced to England from Old Norse; Brandr is a common Old Norse personal name.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a place where burning had occurred, from Old English brand, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, as for example The Brand in Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.
German: variant of Brandt 1.
Scandinavian: from the personal name Brand, Brant, from Old Norse Brandr (see 1).
Swedish: ornamental name from brand ‘fire’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name or nickname from German Brant ‘fire’, ‘conflagration’.
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Brant Surname
This name, with variant spellings Brand, Brandt, Braund, Braun(s) and Bront, derives from the Germanic male given name Brando, a short form of various compound personal name, such as Hildebrand, containing the element "brand", sword or fire-brand, a derivative of "brinnan", to flash. The names Brant and Brand form the first element of various placenames, such as Brandeston, (Suffolk), and Branston in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. As these places were recorded prior to 1066, the indication is that Brant and Brand were introduced to England by the Norsemen, Brand(r) being a common old Norse name. One, Ralph Brand was recorded in the 1184 "Pipe Rolls of London", and a Hamo Braund in the 1219 "Curia Regis Rolls of Bedfordshire". On May 26th 1546 John Brand and Agnes Bissine were married in Saint Lawrence Pountney, London and on March 25th 1565 Rosa Brant was christened in St. Andrew's, Enfield, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Brant, which was dated 1086, The Domesday Book, Norfolk, during the reign of King William 1, "The Conqueror", 1066 - 1087. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Brand Surname
The surname of BRAND was derived from the Old Norman word 'brandre' meaning fire-sword, it was an old Norman personal name found in medieval times in France and Germany, where the name was rendered as Hildebrand. In Germany the name was also used as a locational name meaning the dweller at the area that had been cleared by fire. The name was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Conqest of 1066. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. Early records of the name mention Jacobus filius Brande who was recorded in the year 1106 in London and Ralph Brandem was documented in 1184 in County Yorkshire. William Brand of County Lincolnshire was recorded in 1273. Wymer Brande of County Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. John Brand married Elizabeth Clubb at St. George's, Hanover Square, London in 1796. The names introduced into Britain by the Normans during and in the wake of the Invasion of 1066, are nearly all territorial in origin. The followers of William the Conqueror were a pretty mixed lot, and while some of them brought the names of their castles and villages in Normandy with them, many were adventurers of different nationalities attached to William's standard by the hope of plunder, and possessing no family or territorial names of their own. Those of them who acquired lands in England were called by their manors, while others took the name of the offices they held or the military titles given to them, and sometimes, a younger son of a Norman landowner, on receiving a grant of land in his new home dropped his paternal name and adopted that of his newly acquired property. The associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. http://www.4crests.com/brand-coat-of-arms.html
Prant is a spelling variant of Prante, which is a variant of the German surname Brand/Brant/Brandt.