Brunella meaning | Last name Brunella origin

Brunella is form of Brown. Historian Lower says: "A name which deserves far more reverence than it generally gets. Talk of 'coming over with the Conqueror'- the first Browns came over with Hengist and Horsa—the second with Halfdene and Hastings! I do not doubt that it is in some cases a surname derived from complexion, though in point of fact I have never met with it as an ancient Teutonic surname. As a baptismal name, on the other hand, it was very common, and both on the German and Scandinavian side of very honourable origin. As a Scandinavian name, it seems to be derived from (or at any rate to correspond with) a title of Odin. Of the men called Brúni in the Landnamabok, one is surnamed the 'white,' showing clearly that it was not from complexion (unless indeed he was a 'whitey-brown'). Its meaning seems to 'having marked or prominent eyebrows,'- which is considered to give power and dignity to a countenance."

"The German Browns are a different family. The Old Saxon and Old German Bruno is cognate with the English burn, and signifies fiery or impetuous. As Anglo-Saxon, names, we find Brun and Brún. In a charter of manumission occurs a Brun bydel— "Brown the Beadle." What a nineteenth century sound! Scholar Turner enough translates it, "the brown beadle." says historian Ferguson.

The modification of the Brun. The brown.

Surname Brunella is an adaptation of the Brun. Descendant of Brun that means brown.

Brunella is the form of Broun. One with a dark complexion; descendant of Brun meaning "brown".

Lastname is a variation of Brown. One with a dark complexion; descendant of Brun meaning "brown".

Variant of Brownfield. One who came from Brounfield, i.e., Brun's field, in Scotland.

Family name is the variation of the Bruno. Descendant of Bruno meaning "brown," Bruno is also a pet form of names beginning with Brun as Brunrat and Brunwart.

Is variant form of Brown. Brown haired or complexioned; Burn or Brook; also Beorn or Bear. As the bear was king of the northern forests, his name was used principally by poets to signify chief, noble, prince, king.

Lastname is a variant of Broune. The Scottish form of Brown.

Family name is a variant of the Brown. One of the commonest of our family names, entering into the proverb, "Smith, Jones, Brown, and Robinson," to designate the ignobile rulgus. According to the Reg. General's XVI. Report, it stands sixth among the sur names of England and Wales in point of numbers, Williams, Taylor, and Davies intervening between Jones and this. Within a given period the Smiths were 33,557, and the Browns, 14,346. Its etymology is obvious, and like the Roman Fuscus, the French Le Brun, the German and Dutch Bruin, the name refers to the dark complexion of its original bearers. It is difficult to discriminate between the Browns of Saxon and those of Norman descent, the old orthography being in both instances brun. Domesday has several Bruns, apparently Saxon, but the Battel Abbey Roll has its Le Brun from Normandy, and subsequently we have Le Bruns in plenty, in England, Scotland, and (at Henry II.'s in vasion) in Ireland, and ultimately in every rank of society. The Scottish form is Broun, a retained medievalism. A family of French refugees who settled in Norfolk after the Rev. of the Edict of Nantes, 1685, under the name of Brunet, now write themselves Browne.