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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a curmudgeon, from an agent derivative of Middle High German brummen ‘to buzz or grumble’.
  • German : variant of Brumm 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from 1, or alternatively for a person who hummed, Yiddish brumer.

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