For triangulated surfaces and any \(p>1\) , we introduce the branched combinatorial p-th Calabi flows in Euclidean (hyperbolic resp.) background geometry. Then using an important estimate established by the second author and his collaborators, we show that the solutions to the branched combinatorial p-th Calabi flow exists for all time and converges if and only if there exists a branched circle packing metric. Our results generalize the work of Ge (Trans Amer Math Soc 370(2):1377–1391, 2018), Ge and Hua (Adv Math 333:523–538, 2018), Ge and Xu (Diff Geom Appl 47:86–98, 2016), Gao and Lin (Adv Appl Math 11(10):7451–7463, 2022) and Lin and Zhang (Adv Math 346:1067–1090, 2019) on the combinatorial Calabi flows.