Branston Family History
Branston Name Meaning
from Branston (Leics Lincs Staffs) or Braunston (Leics Northants) or occasionally from Brandeston (Suffolk) Brandiston (Norfolk). The place-name is from the Old Scandinavian given name Brand or the English Brant in the (usually Middle English) genitive case with -es + tūn ‘farm village’.See also Brimson .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016