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brave Name Meaning and History

  1. French: nickname from brave ‘fierce’, ‘courageous’.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): Yiddishized form of Russian bravyj ‘good’, ‘honest’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brave Families in the US in 1920
Number of brave families
 8-14
 3-7		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 7 - Messages: 17
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Brave/Breve family Madison Co. NancyArseneau45 0
Fred Brave, Highland, IL toelift 4
Rachel Brave m. Kopel Berger, CAN>USA estherrochel 0
BraveBoy, Sioux name shortened to Brave Name Tony Brave 6
David Brave born 3-21-1888 died 11-1967 brave86 0
Nellie Brave m. Lavern Dustrude june smith 0
WV-Josephine Brave Carberam 0
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