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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Brumm.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from Yiddish brum ‘hum’, ‘roar’.
  • Portuguese name of Flemish origin, taken to Portugal by a 15th-century immigrant from Flanders and now found mainly in Madeira.

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