Brignall Family History
Brignall Name Meaning
from Brignall (NR Yorks; now Durham) and possibly from an unidentified place with a similar name in E Anglia unless the surname migrated very early from Yorks. The place-name contains Old English halh ‘nook of land’; the first element is uncertain but influenced by Northern dialect brig ‘bridge’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016