Brittain

English Etymology 1 Variant of en Britain; habitational surname from en xno Bretaigne Brittany, from en la Britannia. Proper noun ~ s en Anglo-Norman. en Brittan en neighbourhood city/Akron s/Ohio c/USA formerly a settlement in twp:Suf/Springfield co/Summit County s/Ohio. en unincorporated community co/Taylor County s/West Virginia c/USA. en Britain#Proper noun. en 1606 August 14 (Gregorian calendar) Edward Coke A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury at the Assizes Holden at Norwich, 4th August, 1606; Containing a Just Delineation of Popery: and Other Valuable Documents, as Well for Rulers as for Subjects.By the Great Lord Coke. Not Published in His Works. London Printed for J. J. Stockdale,No. 41, Pall-Mall, bookseller to the Society of Friends to the Established Church. 1813 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=8UhgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA35 558019355 [T]his so famous and farre renown'd great Brittains Monarchy, had at one blowe endured a recouerlesse ruine, beeing ouerwhelmed in a sea of bloud; en Percie Enderbie Cambria Triumphans, or Brittain in Its Perfect Lustre, Shewing the Origen and Antiquity of That Illustrious Nation.The Succession of Their Kings and Princes, from the First, to King Charles of Happy Memory. The Description of the Countrey: The History of the Antient and Moderne Estate. The Manner of the Investure of the Princes, with the Coats of Arms of the Nobility. London Printed for Andrew Crooke,and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1661 21 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_cambria-triumphans-_enderbie-percie_1661 1 en 1695 A Second Edition of Camden's Description of Scotland William Camden 94 Henry, by Mary Queen of Scots, had Issue James the Sixth, King of Brittain, by the propitious Grace of the Eternal God, born in a most auspicate and lucky Hour, to knit and unite in one Body of an Empire, the whole Island of Brittain, divided as well in it self, as it was heretofore from the rest of the World, and to lay a most sure Foundation of an everlasting Security, for our Heirs and the Posterity. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Brittain is the 4096th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8671 individuals. Brittain is most common among White (89.81%) individuals. Etymology 2 From en la Britannus. Noun en Britain#Noun. 1 Of Parceners I 3 248 168 Sixtly, That this Realme was diuided into Shires and Counties, and thoſe Shires into Cities, Burroughs, and Townes, by the Bꝛittains. en 1658 w:Thomas Browne w:Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial London Hen. Brome 2 28 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77689.0001.001 But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized. en w:Serenus de Cressy The Church-History of Brittany From the Beginning of Christianity to the Norman Conquest Under Roman Governours, Brittish Kings, the English-Saxon Heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) Monarchy, 1668 11 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A34964.0001.001/1:7.1.5?rgn=div3 This is the same Claudia Ruffina which the Poet Martial afterward so highly commended for her illustrious birth, beauty and exquisite perfection both in the Grecian and Roman literature, expressly declaring that she was a Brittain. Further reading Anagrams en abiinrtt Brittian