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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : from the Catalan personal name Bru, equivalent to Bruno, or nickname from Catalan bru ‘dark (hair or skin)’, for someone of dark hair and skin.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named in western Norway, from bru ‘bridge’.

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