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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicization of Irish Ó Bruadair, an ancient Donegal sept name: it has also been derived, probably wrongly, from Gaelic bruadar ‘dream’, ‘reverie’.
  • In New England, an Americanized form of French Brodeur.

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