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The bruen Surname

bruen Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant of Breen.
  2. English: probably a variant of Brown.
  3. North German (Brün): from Middle Low German brun ‘brown’, hence probably a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion or for someone who habitually wore brown clothes. Compare Braun.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bruen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bruen families
 28-53
 10-27
 1-9
 0
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