Brian Family History
- Brian Name Meaning
- Irish and English: variant spelling of Bryan. French and English: from the Celtic personal name Brian, which contains the element bre- ‘hill’, with the transferred sense ‘eminence’. See also Bryan. French: nickname from Old Occitan brian ‘maggot’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 326,757 Historical Documents with Brian on Ancestry
- 155,177 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,522 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,528 Military Records
- 8,890 Immigration Records
- 90,640 Member Trees
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Number of Brian families
 131 - 259  44 - 130 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brian families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brian census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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