Brudenell

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from Breidden Hill, in Wales, or Breedon on the Hill, a village in Leicestershire.

Proper noun

Brudenell (countable and uncountable, plural Brudenells)

1. A surname.
2. A community in Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
3. A former municipality in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Brudenell is the 9828^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 610 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Brudenell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 237.