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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Slavic breg ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘mountainside’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Compare Slovenian Bregar.
  • German : from a German thieves’ jargon term meaning ‘beggar’.
  • German : nickname for someone with a loud, strident voice, from a noun derivative of bregen ‘to roar’.

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