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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (North Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places (in Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire, and elsewhere) named Bramley, from Old English brōm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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