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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Brot ‘bread’ (Middle High German brōt), hence a metonymic occupational name for a baker
  • German : from a Germanic personal name related to Old High German proz ‘budding growth’.

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