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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Breen.
  • English : probably a variant of Brown.
  • North German (Brün) : from Middle Low German brūn ‘brown’, hence probably a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion or for someone who habitually wore brown clothes. Compare Braun.

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