Browne Name meanings & History

Browne is a surname that refers to someone with brown hair, eyes, or a dark complexion. It can also refer to the color brown itself. Variant of Brown. Notable namesake is Henry Browne Blackwell, an English born publisher and social reformer who was one of the founders of the Republican Party in the US. Blackwell and wife Lucy Stone helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association to lobby for the legal right to vote for American women. Browne is not commonly used as a first name, but is more often used as a surname.

Zodiac Sign of Browne: Beauty Taurus,Brains Libra

Synonyms of Browne:

B: Beauty,Brains,Bashful,Bountiful

R: Rational,Resourceful,Restless,Reason

O: Obsessive,Obstinate,Obsolete,Ostentatious,Organized

W: Wonderful,Wonderment,Willful,Wild,Wishful

N: Nervous,Nitpicking,Nice,Nutrition,Neat,Neurosis,Nagging

E: Entertain,Expressive,Environment,Enlighten,Exaggerate,Enliven

Browne is:

• a Delicate name
• a Natural name
• a Serious name
• a Simple name
• a Upper Class name

Famous People

Some famous people with the last name Browne include Jackson Browne, an American singer-songwriter, Sir Thomas Browne, a 17th century English author and physician, and Christy Brown, an Irish writer and painter.

Related Names to Browne

Brown, Braun, Broun

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