Briest Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 1
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 1
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Briest Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Briest family

Profession Census Frequency
Brick Layer 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Briest

Name Census Frequency
William Briest 7
Elizabeth Briest 5
George Briest 5
Joseph Briest 5
Mary Briest 5
Thomas Briest 5
Alice Briest 4
Annie Briest 4
James Briest 4
John Briest 4
Robert Briest 3
Samuel Briest 3
Sarah Briest 3
Alfred Briest 2
Emily Briest 2
Harold Briest 2
Kathleen Briest 2
Lily Briest 2
Maria Briest 2
Nellie Briest 2
Richard Briest 2
Ruth Briest 2
Aaron Briest 1
Adolf Briest 1
Adolphus Briest 1

Briest Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Burst 50% 666
2 Bristoe 57% 507
3 Bristo 67% 501
4 Breast 67% 269
5 Brust 67% 243
6 Brist 83% 198
7 Brest 83% 133
8 Borst 50% 126
9 Briest 100% 120
10 Bairsto 57% 117
11 Birst 67% 103

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The surname Briest is the 9th most popular variant of Burst.

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