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brenna Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Lombardy): habitational name from a place in Lombardy named Brenna.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farms in southeastern Norway named Brenna, from brenna ‘land cleared for cultivation by burning’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The brenna name in History

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Distribution of brenna Families in the US in 1920
Number of brenna families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Carl Brenna, b 1897, Norway xenafile 3
Brenna, the name, the history Charles Brenna 13
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Brenna family of Brenna Township, Grand Forks, ND Don Lippert 5
from belgium sylv_young 0
Brenna name/research Brenna2000 1
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