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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived in an area of scrub, from Old French broce ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’ (Late Latin bruscia). Occasionally it may be a metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from the same word used in the transferred sense ‘brush’.

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