Brink Family History
Brink Name Meaning
North German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for
someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German
brinc ‘edge’, ‘slope’, ‘grazing land’, especially a raised
meadow in low-lying marshland. In both Danish and Swedish brink
is a borrowing of Dutch brinck ‘waterside slope’; in Danish it
means ‘where the water runs deep’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brink Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brink families
 165 - 327  56 - 164 |
 1 - 55  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brink families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Brink last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brink census records
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Brink Family Origin
Brink Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Brink
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Brink Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Brink census records
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Brink Civil War Service Records
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