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The brissey Surname

brissey Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly an Americanized spelling of the French surname Brisset (or the variant Brissez), a pet form of the personal name Brès (see Brice).
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of the South and Swiss German family name Brütschi, a variant of Britsch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brissey Families in the US in 1920
Number of brissey families
 10-17
 4-9
 1-3
 0
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