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brass Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Northumberland): variant of Brace.
  2. North German (also Bräss): nickname from Middle Low German bras ‘noise’, ‘pomp’, a related form of brasch (see Braasch).
  3. German: topographic name from Brass ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, a common name element in the Lower Rhine and Ruhr.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brass Families in the US in 1920
Number of brass families
 30-58
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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