Bresnahan

English

Alternative forms

• Brosnan

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brosnacháin (“descendant of Brosnachán”), a personal name derived from Brosna, the name of a town and a river in County Kerry.

Proper noun

Bresnahan (plural Bresnahans)

1. A surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bresnahan is the 8975^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3646 individuals. Bresnahan is most common among White (95.23%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bresnahan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 224.