Last name: BRIEN
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Last name frequency
BRIEN : This last name is indexed 559,208 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRIEN : 1: Irish: shortened form of O'Brien.2: Breton: variant of Briand.3: English: variant of Bryant.
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