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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living by a bridge or an occupational name for a bridge toll collector; a variant of Bruck with the addition of the suffix -ner.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a paver, from Yiddish bruk ‘pavement’ + the agent suffix -ner.

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