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brindle Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Brindle, from Old English burna ‘stream’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  2. Altered spelling of South German Brindl, Bründl, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from a diminutive of Middle High German brun(ne) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or of Brendle or Brendel.

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

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

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Distribution of brindle Families in the US in 1920
Number of brindle families
 60-117
 21-59		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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