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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from a personal name occasionally used for a younger son, i.e. the brother (Middle Low German broder) of someone important, or a byname for a guild member.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Yiddish variant of Brodsky.

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