What Does The Name Braun Mean?

The word 'Braun' is of German origin and the meaning that you can figure out from the word is Brown. The word is considered as a feminine one and seldom can you find the use of the word as a first name; it is used mostly as a surname.
     
The most famous bearer of this surname was the so called wife of Hitler, Eva Braun. It is believed that it was she who died with Hitler when the Russians found the charred body of Adolf Hitler when they entered into Germany after the World War II. You can find a lot of stories written after the phenomenon of that charred death of the couple and some of them even claim that the bodies were not of theirs but of some dummies and the couple lived for long even after the war.