Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a reduced form of
Abraham.
- North German: topographic name from Middle
Low German brām ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, or a habitational name
from a place named with Low German brām ‘swampy thicket’,
for example Am Brahm, near Oldenburg (denoting a location by a
canal).
- German: topographic name for someone who lived by a
bramble thicket, from Middle High German brāme ‘blackberry’,
‘bramble’.
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