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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : occupational name for a brewer, a dialect (Low German) form of Brauer.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of the cognate Breuer.
  • Possibly Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Bruer, from the plural of bru ‘bridge’.

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