Last Name BRISBIN

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Meaning Local: Signifies the Mount or Hill of Judgment, a place where courts were held and law administered, among the Celts and Britons, from the Cornish-British 'brez' or 'brys,' a judgment, a trial at law, and 'ban,' a hill, a mount. In Gaelic, 'Breasban' signifies the royal mount; 'Briosgabhain,' the rapid river; 'Brisbeinn,' the broken hill or cliff.
Origin

Rank 21,479 (2000 US census) 20,364 (1990 US census)
Count 1,134 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.33%, or 1081 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.44%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.41%, or 16 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.29%, or 26 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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