Bras Family History
Bras Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: from Old French and Middle Dutch
bras ‘arm’. This was probably a descriptive nickname for
someone with some peculiarity of the arm, but the word was also used
as a measure of length, and may also have denoted a surveyor.Spanish: from the personal name, a vernacular form of
Blasius, popularized through the cult of the 4th century
Christian martyr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bras Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bras families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bras families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bras Family Origin
Bras Immigration Information
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Bras Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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