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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name, probably from a place in Leicestershire, England, called Bringhurst. This was named in Old English with Br̄ninga + hyrst ‘wooded hill’, i.e. ‘wooded hill on lands associated with someone called Br̄ni’.

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