Last name: BRIAN
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BRIAN : This last name is indexed 150,530 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRIAN : 1: Irish and English: variant of Bryant.2: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Briain see O'Brien.3: French: unflattering nickname from Old Occitan brian ‘mite maggot’ by extension brimborion possibly denoting a very small man.
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