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brisbane Name Meaning and History

Scottish: nickname from Old French bris(er) ‘to break’ + Old English ban ‘bone’. The sense of this hybrid name is not clear; it may have been used for someone crippled by a broken bone or for a violent man who broke other people’s bones.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brisbane Families in the US in 1920
Number of brisbane families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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