Siris
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Name Etymologies
Etymologies of names are interesting. Brandon has no single etymology; the name and close variants arise independently in multiple languages, sounding almost exactly the same and eventually in time being treated as equivalent but having no common meaning: Prince, Raven or Crow, Broom Hill, Sword. They also get appropriated the Irish forms of the name are not originally Irish, for instance; it was a foreign name that became popular. I tend to think of my name as broadly Welsh, but strictly speaking, in my case the name is derived from a surname, which means that in lineage it s probably Anglo-Saxon (Broom Hill, and thus the same as many of the towns and cities called Brandon in the English-speaking world), or French (in which case either Sword or Firebrand).