Last name: BRYSON
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BRYSON : This last name is indexed 63,398 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRYSON : 1: Scottish: patronymic from the personal name Brice + -son (see Brice and Bryce).2: Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Briosáin a form of Ó Muirgheasáin (see Morrissey) altered by association with the Scottish surname Bryson especially in Derry. Bryson was also used for Breslin in Donegal.
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