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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Dweller on a burned clearing

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from the Czech town of Brandýs, on the Labe (Elbe) river, called Brandeis in German.

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