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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, from Dutch brugge ‘bridge’ (see Bridge); in some cases, it is a habitational name for someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (or Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’.
  • Altered spelling of Swiss Bruggmann ‘bridge keeper’.

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