Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational nickname for a (beer) brewer, one of the many variants (e.g., Breu-, Brey-, Broyhan), from Middle High German briuw(er) ‘brew(er)’ + a short form of the common personal name Johann(es) (see John).
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