Your name of Branning gives you a strong urge for independence. When you are required to express yourself in personal matters requiring finesse and diplomacy, you feel awkward and embarrassed. You can express your deeper thoughts and feelings best through writing. Preferring the simple life, you are content to forego the comforts and amenities that many people regard as essential. Under circumstances when others are expressive, you feel inferior because of your inability to communicate your deeper thoughts and feelings. As a result, others withdraw from you as they find you to be somewhat severe, aloof, and uncommunicative. You are not easily influenced by the opinions and actions of others and can be depended upon for assistance. You can express yourself with greater ease in writing. There is originality and depth of thought contained in this name, particularly along practical and mathematical lines. You find satisfaction in being outdoors or in getting out into nature, or in dealing with the products of the earth.