Hi Cheryl! Welcome to the group! As you can see, there are several of us who spell the name as you do! Can you tell me where your father's family came from? Had they been in America for a long time? Since the famine? And do you know from where they immigrated in Ireland? Was it the Dublin area? County Dublin? My husband's family was in the Boston area from about 1880 until 1980 (different generations, of course) and used the spelling Branagan.But we are having a difficult time finding out from where in Ireland they came.