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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of German Breymann, from Middle High German brī ‘porridge’ + man ‘man’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or owned a grist mill or for someone involved in the production of millet, millet having been the main cereal used for cooking in medieval Europe.

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