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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Northumberland) : variant of Brace.
  • North German (also Bräss) : nickname from Middle Low German brās ‘noise’, ‘pomp’, a related form of brāsch (see Braasch).
  • German : topographic name from Brass ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, a common name element in the Lower Rhine and Ruhr.

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