Origin of the name BROWN Back

Origin

BROWN : A name derived from complexion, color of hair or garments, consequently, a very common name.

BRONSON : A contraction of Brownson, the son of Brown. Briaunson, local, a place in France. This name came into England with William the Conqueror.

BRUNSON : A contraction of Brownson, the son of Brown. Briaunson, local, a place in France. This name came into England with William the Conqueror.

BROWNSON : The son of Brown.

DUNN : Gaelic, Dun, a heap, hill, mount; a fortress, a castle, fastness, a tower. Dunn, Saxon, brown, of a dark color, swarthy.

DUNNING : The brown offspring, from the Saxon Dunn, brown, and the termination ing, which, among the Saxons, signified ofispring, as White-ing, the fair oflfepring, Cuth-ing, the son of Cuth. Dunning has retained its original orthography since the days of the Saxons.

FLOYD : The same as Llwyd, Welsh, brown, gray, hoary.

LLOYD : (Welsh.) Gray or brown.

LHUYD : (Welsh.) Gray or brown.

NOTT : Hnott, Saxon, smooth, round, a nut. Notted, an old word for shorn, polled. The name may have come from wearing the hair short and smooth. A nott hed had he, with a brown visage. Chaucer.

WHITING : (Sax.) The white or fair offspring. The Saxon termination ing, denoted offspring or child, as Cuthing, the child of Cuth, Dun-ning, the brown offspring, etc.

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