Bright Family History
- Bright Name Meaning
- English: from a Middle English nickname or personal name, meaning ‘bright’, ‘fair’, ‘pretty’, from Old English beorht ‘bright’, ‘shining’. English: from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhthelm ‘bright helmet’. Compare Bert. Americanized form of German Brecht. Americanized spelling of German Breit.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,740,597 Historical Documents with Bright on Ancestry
- 445,606 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 297,680 Census and Voter Lists
- 43,859 Military Records
- 21,306 Immigration Records
- 932,146 Member Trees
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Number of Bright families
 231 - 459  78 - 230 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bright families
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593 - 1,183 198 - 592 |
1 - 197 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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33 - 63 12 - 32 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 870
- Confederate
- 395
- Union
- 475
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