Brun Family History
- Brun Name Meaning
- French: descriptive nickname, le Brun ‘the brown one’, from Old French brun, referring to the color of the hair, complexion, or clothing (see Brown). This name is also Catalan and Swiss (in the French as well as the German speaking parts). North German and Scandinavian: nickname Germanic bruna ‘brown’, referring to the color of the hair, complexion, or clothing or from a Germanic personal name, Bruno, with the same meaning. See also Braun.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 285,707 Historical Documents with Brun on Ancestry
- 135,769 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,613 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,234 Military Records
- 12,670 Immigration Records
- 105,421 Member Trees
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Number of Brun families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brun families
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9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brun 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 1881 UK Census Data
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