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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from either of two places in Kent named Brissenden (one near Frittenden, the other near Tenterden), both named with the Old English personal name Brēosa (a byname from brēsa ‘gadfly’) + Old English denn ‘woodland pasture (for swine)’.

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