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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Ber(n)wald, composed of the elements ber(n) ‘bear’ + wald ‘rule’. Compare Brault.
  • French : habitational name from a place in Gironde named Braud.

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