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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Leicestershire) : of uncertain origin; perhaps variant spelling of Bruin, or alternatively the Irish name (see 2).
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Braion ‘descendant of Braon’, a byname meaning ‘moisture’, ‘drop’.

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