Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Brughadha
‘descendant of Brughaidh’, a byname meaning ‘strong farmer’,
‘prosperous farmer’.
- Manx: Anglicized form of the Gaelic
occupational term breitheamh ‘judge’, ‘deemster’ (see
Brain).
- Probably an Americanized spelling of German
and Swiss Breu, a variant of Breuer.
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