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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Brühl) : topographic name for someone who lived by a swampy area, Middle High German brüel, Middle Low German brūl ‘swampy land with brushwood’.
  • German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Brühl in Germany.

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