Family name origins & meanings
- English : from the Middle English and Old English personal name Brūning, originally a patronymic from the byname Brūn (see Brown).
- This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Browning was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.