Brust Family History
- Brust Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German brust ‘chest’, ‘breast’; also ‘vest’, presumably a nickname for someone with a particularly broad chest or alternatively for the wearer of a distinctive upper garment. Swiss German: topographic name for someone living near a down-fault in a mountain range, probably a crevasse, from Brust, a noun derivative of bresten ‘to burst’. French: from Old French brost ‘shoot’, ‘young growth’. Morlet suggests this is a topographic name for someone who lived by an area of low growth suitable for grazing. Jewish (Ashkenazic): presumably from German Brust ‘chest’ (see 1) or from the Yiddish equivalent, brust.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 100,616 Historical Documents with Brust on Ancestry
- 50,747 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,277 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,848 Military Records
- 2,735 Immigration Records
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Number of Brust families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brust census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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