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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Tawny

How Popular Is The Name Brin

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Brin, the Yiddish name for Brno, a city in Moravia.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : acronymic surname from Hebrew ben rabi ‘son of …’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. See also Brill.
  • French : nickname for a loud or quarrelsome man, from Old French brin ‘noise’, ‘tumult’.

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