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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Bruyère) : from Old French bruyere ‘heather’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where heather grew, or a habitational name from one of the places in France (for example in Calvados) named with this word.

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