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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of Scottish McBrayer.
  • The surname is also established in England, where it may be an occupational name for a maker of pestles, from Old French breie, broie ‘pestle’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish brayer ‘brewer’.

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