Brogna Family History
- Brogna Name Meaning
- Sicilian and southern Italian: metonymic occupational name for a swineherd, from Sicilian bbrogna ‘shell used for calling pigs’, from Late Latin ebornea (bucina) ‘ivory horn’, or alternatively a nickname for someone with a large nose, from the same word in the sense ‘pig’s snout’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,256 Historical Documents with Brogna on Ancestry
- 3,122 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,203 Census and Voter Lists
- 474 Military Records
- 756 Immigration Records
- 1,701 Member Trees
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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