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brittain Name Meaning and History

English: ethnic name for a Celtic-speaking Briton or Breton (see Brett). In more recent times, this surname was adopted by immigrants to Britain as a token of their new patriotism.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brittain Families in the US in 1920
Number of brittain families
 41-79
 14-40		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Moody Brittain seamus3 3
Elvie Brittain NC (Alexander. Burke, Catawba) revolution32 0
Brittains on Dawes Enrollment BarbaraKaler68 0
Brittain/Britton Trenton/ Nottingham NJ cuffsnstuff364 0
obit fyi: Thora Brittain. 1918-2008 MargaretBumgarner 0
BRITTAIN Bessie S 1861 1878 dau of R B and A E Brittain t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
Elna Brittain of Taft, TX 1924 drbrownlee 0
Brittain/Britton, Samuel; NJ Doyle T. Brittain, Sr. 3
Brittains in Ok, Mo and Ind danielcrosby53 32
Iven Hill Brittain cecooley_1 1
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