Släkthistoria för Brend
Brend Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English brend brent brind ‘burnt’ (forms of the past participle of Old English bærnan bernan byrnan ‘to burn’) perhaps used for a criminal who had been branded. Compare Henry Brendcheke 1279 in Assize Rolls (Northumb) Cutte Brendhers 1279 in Hundred Rolls (Cambs). Compare Brennan and Brunt. Some of the following early bearers may belong with (2). see Brent.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
