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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : occupational name for a maker of shoelaces or braids from Middle High German brīser.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from an agent derivative of German preisen ‘to praize’, ‘to extol’.

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