Brain Family History
Brain Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic
Mac an Bhreitheamhan ‘son of the judge’, from breitheamh
‘judge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brain Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brain families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brain families
|
502 - 1,001 168 - 501 |
1 - 167 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brain families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brain census records
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Brain Family Origin
Brain Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Brain
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Brain Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Brain census records
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Brain Civil War Service Records
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