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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : reduced form of Breger or Breder, a variant of Brede.
  • Variant spelling of English Brear, from Old English brǣr ‘thorn bush’, hence a nickname for a sharp or prickly person.

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