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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for an inspector of weights and measures.
  • German and Swiss German : habitational name for someone from any of the many places called Brand or Brandt (see Brandt).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : perhaps an occupational name for fireman or distiller, from German Brand, Yiddish brand ‘conflagration’.
  • Dutch : nickname for a fire raiser.
  • Danish : habitational name for someone from a place called Brande.

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