Brisco: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Search old registers for Brisco and you will soon meet Briscoe too. Its meaning, shared with Briscoe, is “Wood of the Britons”.

Brisco coat of arms

Arms linked to Briscoe and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Briscoe

Brisco drops the “e” of Briscoe, a simplification that clerks often made. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

In the 2010 US Census, 3,123 Americans gave Brisco as their last name (rank 10,316). Want more than a summary? See the Brisco family name pack.