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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Ashkenazic Jewish, or Americanized form of German Bräuer, an occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle Low German brūwer or Middle High German briuwer ‘brewer’.

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