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The brest Surname

brest Name Meaning and History

German: nickname from Middle High German brast ‘boastfulness’.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the brest family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of brest Families in the US in 1920
Number of brest families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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