The brisbane Surname
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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