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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ethnic name for a Prussian, either a member of an ancient Baltic people related to the Lithuanians and Latvians or a member of the German people who displaced them in the 13th century. Compare Prusak, Preuss.
  • Slovenian (south-central Slovenia) : altered reduced form of the personal name Ambrož, Latin Ambrosius. Compare Brus 2.

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