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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome, from Old English brōm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.

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